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It'll be interesting to see what happens when a copyright troll ( https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-o
by nullc 4y ago
It'll be interesting to see what happens when a copyright troll ( https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299 https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-... ) realizes that they can acquire the rights to models distributed under these vague-as-fog moral panic licenses, or distribute their own and have people actually use them, and start extracting rents.
These licenses will do little to nothing to stop abuse: The abusers will already conceal their identities because their actions are immoral or even illegal (fraud, harassment, etc). But they create a whole host of new liabilities for the users because the definitions are exceedingly subjective.
It's tremendously important to make these tools actually open. But open with a lurking liability bomb stops short of the goal. While stability.ai may never turn into a troll or sell their rights to one, that isn't necessarily true for the next model that comes around.
- fragmede 4y agoThat raises the question. What is the economic licensing for StableDiffusion et al? Can I download it and set it up, and then charge people money to run it?