Lol the above example of art theft is especially interesting because it doesn't even require for the art on the left to be part of the training set - AI Bro basically did the equivalent of a photoshop paintover and claimed it his own. This is basically the most childish behavior possible. It's not even cynical, it's just…
Yes, no one knows, and that too is besides the point. For instance one might believe that a country that goes full throttle into eugenics and human cloning would become populated by world-conquering super-humans within a few years, so why resist it, might as well do the same ; but that wouldn't prevent other countries to…
Sorry, couldn't help it :D Now for the sake of broadening the discussion and since history has been brought up many times, perhaps the following read is relevant given that it shows what happens when an utopian system (undoubtedly well intentioned, like all utopias are ... or pretend to be) puts a target on the back of…
Well there are basically two layers to this : at the lowest level, there are the billions of images and artists (+ all the relevant metadata) that got scraped and potentially given some so-called "aesthetic rating" in Laion5B - all done and used without consent. A simply query through HaveIBeenTrained using any random…
Remember the "Make Art" button? Ironic, huh..? :D I´m mostly writing here to express my support for the people protesting against AI. Unlike many others I don´t share the optimistic point of view on Artstation though. I don´t think that a platform that behaves like this is reformable and I do believe that there should be…
Hi there @zetheros , Even though an ill-intentioned scrapper would always find a way to scrape, I do feel like good old regular portfolios have a place here. (and perhaps the geographic location of where to host one's files can matter too, since legislation on data collecting is bound to differ). I did go the Wordpress…
What a well-needed Xmas break ! I hope all of you managed to take a bit of a breather and enjoy friends and family (all that while AI-children were probably busy feverously typing into the MJ server to get the most out of their paid sub by the end of the month) There's still a ton more to unpack though (probably for…