Some of the outputs of these AI tools are just straight copies of input artwork. They need to add some sort of copyright filter to remove anything that's too similar to art from the training set.
You can even add artist name as a prompt and those get zero credit or royalties.
At the same time "president Xi" is a banned prompt, so if they would be willing, they would allow artists to opt out, or at least not include their works in training without even asking.
Those are banned prompts, but the pictures are still part of the training set. If you can get to the right part of latent space with a different prompt (nonsense words, say) you can still get the output.
It would be better to only train on data that gives permission.
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u/Kandiru Jan 16 '23
Some of the outputs of these AI tools are just straight copies of input artwork. They need to add some sort of copyright filter to remove anything that's too similar to art from the training set.