I'm not an AI Vegan, but perhaps an advocate of the AI "Eat Local" movement (of which I might be the only member :P)? I similarly understand and sympathise wit

I'm not an AI Vegan, but perhaps an advocate of the AI "Eat Local" movement (of which I might be the only member :P)? I similarly understand and sympathise with the apprehension of generating images from this massive harvesting of data with little regard of what should and should not be in the dataset. I think by using these models as pre-training weights and fine-tuning on data which one believes they have the right to use or (even better) has created themselves, you can (IMHO) greatly minimise the harm of your model's output. I also like this from a conceptual stand-point. We have the right to learn and be inspired by others, but when it comes to putting the paint brush to the canvas or the ink to the page, it should be our own experiences that we draw primarily from.