/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story

Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by shadowgovt on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:57PM (#33166584)

If anything, in the absence of copyrightability, the only protection is trade secrecy and I'd expect Emad to be even deeper in the opinion space of "We cut off the oxygen (systematically speaking) of those who would steal trained ML data."

There's an interesting anecdote around how stand-up comedians protect jokes against theft, given how weak copyright is on jokes: it's keying cars, poisoning drinks (generally non-fatally, but it's hard to have a good night on stage when your lower GI tract wants to be elsewhere), and never-work-in-this-town-again agreements. We put these protections into the law because the alternative isn't no protection; it's people-take-it-into-their-own-hands protection.

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Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by pclmulqdq on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:27PM (#33169445)

This method only works when the people you are trying to attack and/or blackball from an industry actually want to be in that industry. Lots of people will just use these ML models without trying to participate in the "ML community" the same way my wife and I tell each other jokes from comedians without trying to be comedians ourselves.

The users of these models and the developers are fundamentally different.

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