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> Once it's illegal, only the criminals will use it. No first-world company will break the law to save money on artists. You think anyone who matters will secre

> Once it's illegal, only the criminals will use it. No first-world company will break the law to save money on artists. You think anyone who matters will secretly use a neural net trained in violation of copyright? Think again. Disney is a first world company and it does exactly that: https://www.yahoo.com/now/column-disney-allegedly-cheated-hundreds-130008971.html https://www.yahoo.com/now/column-disney-allegedly-cheated-hu... Getty images is another: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/04/getty-images-sued-accused-misusing-47000-photos/ https://petapixel.com/2016/08/04/getty-images-sued-accused-m... In the US, the approach is to see what you can get away with, and you can get away with a lot with a pile of money and an army of lawyers.

aiappreciator 4y ago
This can also be trivially circumvented: Step 1. Hire some outsourced artist in the rest of the world, where people don't care about AI art regulation. Step 2. Watch as those outsourced artists outproduce the domestic artists, since they have the twin advantage of lower costs AND better quality due to being able to use insanely powerful AIs. Step 3. Watch as the domestic art industry gets wiped out, just like manufacturing did. Politicians can understand this 1.2.3, therefore they'll never ban art AI.