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I don't think there was an actual list of artists released, was there?

• minimaxir 3y ago
  It was in a court filing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
  • runnr_az 3y ago
    Yeah... but I don't think it's an actual list of artists that were used? Here's a relevant comment from the last discussion of this on HN: "Looking at the source tweet[1], this isn't a list of artists specifically used to train Midjourney, but instead is a list of artists used to pre-render additives that can be added to an existing prompt much faster than an arbitrary addition." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908079
    • jazzyjackson 3y ago
      Agreed its a bit tertiary, but how would that list of artists have any meaning if their work was not included in training? also the discovery of the list was a strong rebuttal to the (iirc) CEO of Midjourney complaining that finding the source of online images in order to ask permission / offer compensation was just too arduous a task and also that they didn't bother. Well here's a list of thousands of artist styles they bothered to identify.
    • rideontime 3y ago
      You raise a good point. Why doesn't Midjourney release the list of plagiarized artists?
      • Imnimo 3y ago
        Isn't that the LAION dataset? It's publicly available.