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Re:Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal eart... by hashmap on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:10AM (#35423847)
Shouldn't it be decided on an image-by-image basis? If the resulting image doesn't infringe copyright, what's the relevance of how it was made? That's how it's worked up until this point.

I mean, maybe because the impact is so severe we should HAVE new laws affording more protections to artists, but that's a different argument right?

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Re:Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal eart... by petilon on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:19AM (#35424010)
Right, otherwise even images (or code) created by humans would infringe copyright automatically and always, because our brains are neural networks too.
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Re:Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal eart... by yencabulator on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:54PM (#35428395)
Copyright holders have been attacking copyright-infringing tools for quite a while now, there's nothing new about that.

Imagine an image-generating ML dataset that has been trained on nothing but images of Mickey Mouse. Surely the Disney corporation would come after that, I have no doubt about that. Why does commingling Mickey with other inputs change that, if the tool can still reproduce images of Mickey Mouse when asked for that?

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