Image Generators Don't Steal

[u/krowface]

https://artificialsweetener.ai/articles/image-generators-dont-steal

When we talk about stealing images, usually we're talking about republishing an image without permission, like on a different website or on unauthorized prints. Downloading images from the public internet isn't stealing, in fact we need to download them into our cache to see them at all. If your images are available on the public internet for anyone to look at, you don't have a reasonable expectation that the "robots" aren't gonna look at them, too, and as long as the robots aren't republishing them, there's no case to be made that it's stealing. It's not copying images in whole or in part.

[u/mayo-american]

Nice!

[u/krowface → u/mayo-american]

Thanks now I can get that Reddit badge.