> To be clear, I hope that training AI on copyrighted images remains legal, because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation if it wasn't! Te

> To be clear, I hope that training AI on copyrighted images remains legal, because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation if it wasn't! Temporarily, yes. However it wouldn’t be the worst thing if they were forced to work on sample-efficiency. And I maintain that if they want a large dataset of images they can collaborate with Twitter and Instagram to add an image license option to the image uploader, and provide a license option that explicitly allows this kind of use. AI needs sample efficiency research and if they actually had to get consent for their images there are a lot of artists who wouldn’t feel like their work was being ripped off. It’s probably better if this kind of use is broadly permitted, but I don’t think it’s the disaster some think it would be if they were forced to get consent. There’s already millions of openly licensed images in several collections online (Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons) and if they forced people to provide licenses on sites like twitter we could actually have open datasets for this instead of these kind of grey areas of privately scraped datasets.