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I'm much more interested in the copyright Details for something like Waifu Labs (https://waifulabs.com https://waifulabs.com) It's an AI model trained from a b
by vadansky 7y ago
I'm much more interested in the copyright Details for something like Waifu Labs (https://waifulabs.com https://waifulabs.com)
It's an AI model trained from a booru which is basically a collection of "pirated" images people scrape from artist's pages/twitters/etc.
How is selling the output from the model as pillows legal?
To follow up on this, it kinda feels like "laundering". That is if I want to use a photographer's photo on my product landing page I have to pay him. But if I run it though a NN so that it spits out images that look exactly like his, I don't have to pay him anymore?
- rahuldottech 7y agoI'd say it is no different than me looking at a lot of manga illustrations and then coming up with my own. There's no doubt that I was heavily inspired by what media I consumed, and learnt from it. Does that mean I don't own rights to what I make?
- aidenn0 7y agoIt's a question of whether or not what is emitted is mechanically derived from the source. With waifu labs, there is user input, but a similar tool could be setup to deterministically generate images from the input, and that is arguably purely a derivative of the inputs, though there is still some creativity in determining how to process the inputs and construct the NN &c. Now some philosophers will argue that human creativity is purely a derivative of the inputs, but copyright law certainly does not consider it to be so.