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> If I take copyrighted photos and run it through something like an "AI" filter to change the colors slightly, the photos aren't suddenly public domain. That
by gwern 7y ago
> If I take copyrighted photos and run it through something like an "AI" filter to change the colors slightly, the photos aren't suddenly public domain.
That is not what is being done here. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformativeness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformativeness
> If you steal from enough people at once is it then legal?
How many people does a great human artist steal from to become an artist? If you steal solely from one other artist, you're a plagiarist; if you steal from a thousand other artists, you're an innovator and pioneer of a new style...
- fenwick67 7y agoThis isn't transformative enough to pass a sniff test. They took multiple images and put them in a computer to make images that look like those images. What's transformative about that?
- gwern 7y agoThat's extremely transformative: it's learning from a large corpus what faces are and how to create brand new ones which cannot even be traced back to an original. (If you think even that is not enough to count as 'transformative', I suggest you look at the examples in the WP article of what has been considered transformative, like 'thumbnail screenshots of web pages' and 'putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa'.)
- fenwick67 7y agoWhen a significant number look like zootopia characters I don't think you can claim they "can't be traced back to the original", lots of these are overfit
- gwern 7y agoThey are not 'overfit' unless they are exactly the same and they cannot generalize. But you can see the wide variety of high quality faces which are not copied from the dataset and that the interpolations are fine: https://twitter.com/arfafax/status/1258344026706599937 https://twitter.com/arfafax/status/1258344026706599937 Generating a recognizable character is no more 'overfit' than a painter being able to paint George Washington means their brain is 'overfit'. If those characters are part of the data distribution, as they are, then the GAN can and should generate them and countless variants on them.
- egypturnash 7y agoMy experience as a pro artist is that once you can swipe from eight people whose work is mostly unrelated to each other, you have a Unique Style.