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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by dredmorbius on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:55AM (#33999491)
Among the goals seems to be a bit of well-poisoning. Artists have done this previously by creating art saying, say, "This site sells STOLEN artwork, do NOT by from them", and encouraging followers to reply with "I want this on a t-shirt", which had previously been used by rip-off sites to pirate artwork. See:

<https://waxy.org/2019/12/how-artists-on-twitter-tricked-spam...>

If art streams are tree-spiked with copyrighted or trademarked works, then AI generators might be a bit more gun-shy about training with abandon on such threads.

It's a form of monkeywrenching.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage#As_environmental_acti...>

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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by gwd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:52AM (#34001388)
Not sure about Stable Diffusion / Metawhatsit, but OpenAI's training set is already curated to make sure it avoids violence and pornography; and in any case, the whole thing relies on humans to come up with descriptions. Not clear how this sort of thing would "spike the well" in that sense.
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