Re:Don't Fire Your Illustrator
by soligern on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:23PM
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A human looking at someone’s artwork is “training a model”. It’s bullshit and anti progressive to say someone or something that is creating derivative works is stealing.
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You might feel that way but it’s also the law, but this isn’t some grey area.
Even just training the model requires someone to copy the original work from somewhere and store it into a database to use to train the model. If you don’t have permission to make that copy then it’s commercial copyright infringement independent of anything done by the model after that point.
not stealing the work, just stealing the revenue...for very little investment.
> A human looking at someone’s artwork is “training a model
sure, except that model often takes months or years to train (wall clock years, not 1000-core cpu-years). and the end result is not a human that can stamp out new/competing artwork every 100ms.
for any kind of creative/performance/art work, these are watershed times. us coders are not super far behind.