Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian...
by dymk on Saturday January 14, 2023 @09:58AM
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What court case set the president that you can’t train a neural network on publicly posted movies and audio?
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Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian...
by Xelynega on Saturday January 14, 2023 @11:28AM
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I'd assume the precedent would be about sharing encoder data, which would be covered in bittorrent cases.
"Training a neural network" is an implementation detail. These companies accessed millions of copyrighted works, encoded them such that the copyright was unenforcable, then sell the output of that transformation.
Re:Lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion filed against Devian...
by dymk on Saturday January 14, 2023 @11:37AM
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Not being able to reproduce the inputs (each image is contributing single bytes to the neural network) is relevant. Torrent files are a means to exactly reproduce their inputs. Diffusion models are trained to not reproduce their inputs, nor do they have the means to.