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Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators::As AI developers indiscriminately suck up online content to train their models, artists are seeking ways to fight back.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Are you actually suggesting that if I post a drawing of a dog, Disney should be allowed to use it in a movie and not compensate me?

[-] Delta_V@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Everyone should be assumed to be able to look at it, learn from it, and add your style to their artistic toolbox. That's an intrinsic property of all art. When you put it on display, don't be surprised or outraged when people or AIs look at it.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

AI does not learn and transform something like a human does. I have no problem with human artists taking inspiration, I do have a problem with art being reduced to a soulless generation that requires stealing real artists work to create something that isn’t original.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
  1. you don't know how humans learn and transform something

  2. regardless, it does learn and transform something

[-] Delta_V@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

AI does not learn and transform something like a human does.

But they do learn. How human-like that learning may be isn't relevant. A parrot learns to talk differently than a human does too, but African greys can still hold a conversation. Likewise, when an AI learns how to make art by studying what others have made, they may not do it in exactly the same way a human does it, but the products of the process are their own creations just as much as the creations of human artists that parrot other human artists' styles and techniques.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Ofc not, that's way different, that's beyond the use of public use.

If I browse to your Instagram, look at some of your art, record some numbers about it, observe your style and then leave that's perfectly fine right? If I then took my numbers and observations from your art and everybody else's that I looked and merged them together to make my own style that would also be fine right? Well that's AI, that's all it does on a simple level

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

But they are still profiting off of it. Dall-E doesn't make images out of the kindness of OpenAI's heart. They're a for-profit company. That really doesn't make it different from Disney, does it?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sure, Dall-E has a profit motive, but then what about all the open source models that are trained on the same or similar data and artworks?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

You've strayed very far from:

if you post publicly, expect it to be used publicly

What is the difference between Dall-E scraping the art and an open source model doing it other than Dall-E making money at it? It's still using it publicly.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I didn't really stray far, you brought up that Dall-E has a profit motive and I acknowledged that yea that was true, but there also open source models that don't

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