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Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators (theconversation.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 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