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I'm not a copyright lawyer or anything, but the way I look at it is that the big concern is that you can't easily prove that a particular AI output is not just

by Imnimo 4y ago

I'm not a copyright lawyer or anything, but the way I look at it is that the big concern is that you can't easily prove that a particular AI output is not just a memorized copyrighted training example. So even if we assume that it is perfectly allowable to train your model on unlicensed images, that doesn't protect you if your model spits out a carbon copy (or something close enough to be infringing) of a copyrighted image. A similar concern exists for things like Copilot, but it feels even harder to detect in the image domain.

TillE 4y ago
Yeah, it's pretty easy to get Stable Diffusion to spit out images which are blatantly recognizable as slight distortions of real photographs or product images. I think "medieval market square" was a prompt which got me variations of one photo of a European city. It's sophisticated software, but the analogy with teaching a human artist really doesn't hold. Ultimately it's making complex mashups, and the copyright law around that is not straightforward.