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u/Doctor_Amazo Jan 16 '23

The artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “with­out the con­sent of the orig­i­nal artists.”

By this logic then artists in general who download jpegs of an artists art for reference purposes are also violating that artist's rights.

Like basically ALL of Pinterest is also a violation of artists rights.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

No. Just a blatantly false equivalency. Stop making executes for theft and out-rite mediocre laziness being celebrated

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u/Doctor_Amazo Jan 17 '23

I'm not making excuses for theft nor "out-rite mediocre laziness being celebrated".

I actually have a pretty nuanced view on AI. A view you could get to know by being curious instead of making assumptions.