Re:Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
by jabits on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:32PM
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More than one person can come up with the same riff, right?
If someone is worried about an original image, why not watermark all uploaded versions?
If I walk about my neighborhood scattering paper copies of an image, and someone else picks one up to hang on their wall, did anyone break any laws (besides me littering)?
Re:Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
by hammyhavoc on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:40PM
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Who says they aren't watermarked? These watermarks are showing up in AI generated art, that's a documented fact.
I capture what I see, more as a frame of reference for myself with location scouting and game dev. I take quite literally hundreds of thousands of photographs. It's 1 in every thousand that's worth sharing.
I have zero interest in other photographers, I can't even name one. Whatever other people do, neat. I don't even consider myself to be a "photographer", but I guess with hotels and airports buying prints, that somehow makes me a professional.
I capture what I like. There's literally zero other motivation behind it. Most of my income comes from elsewhere. I use a print-on-demand service.
If I take a photograph of a sculpture I've made and that is then incorporated into another work without permission, that's intellectual property theft. A lot of the images are of things I've made, not just street photography or landscapes that anybody could go and take.
If I write a riff in a microtonal scale and it turns up as a sample in a record, or is covered and released without permission, that's intellectual property theft too.