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So, if someone started a Kickstarter campaign to hire artists to make the dataset to train a diffusion model, with appropriate licensing provisions (such as sta

So, if someone started a Kickstarter campaign to hire artists to make the dataset to train a diffusion model, with appropriate licensing provisions (such as standard stuff like signing over the copyright to the entity running the project), is that an attack on artists because the resulting model would take away work from them or supporting them because it would create a bunch of work for some artists?

egypturnash 4y ago
I'd say it's supporting artists! They're being compensated for training a dataset, instead of having their work grabbed for "fair use", which is a thing I feel needs to be redefined when you can scrape the entire Internet and do this kind of thing.
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  But Kickstarter still wouldn’t allow it under the new rules I believe.