AI Trained Using Watermarked Shutterstock images, Flickr, etc

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AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability - Waxy.org

Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.

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Not sure how many photographers and artists know about all these AI projects evolution and their impact on your work and IP, ownership, 3rd party usage, data scraping, etc. Ethically speaking, imho it's dubious how all of humanities creations are being chewed up into AI and spit out. Going back to the Napster days and cultural change of torrents, file sharing, etc we have a entire younger generation raised on digital everything and some of whom do not place monetary value on other peoples work and creation and find ways to copy, remix, repurpose such. It's a mixed bag, and I don't want to sound like a knuckle dragger. If you have copyrighted photos online hosted somewhere, could be likely your work has been input into this AI.

 

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No problem anymore with photo watermarks lol, now a web site offers AI removal service.

Will Apple promote it and see it as a legit downloadable app in their app store soon?

AI-powered watermark removal poses uncomfortable implications for content use

AI is here to stay, so we must prepare ourselves for its many consequences. We can use AI to make our lives easier, but it's also possible to use AI technology for more nefarious purposes, such as making stealing photos a simple one-click endeavor.

www.dpreview.com

 

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The same thing applies to the text generators, if you ask the GPT family to write a story in the style of Jim Butcher, it will return exactly that. It can only do that if the training set contains the copyrighted stories Jim wrote.

The Getty lawsuit is interesting, since tries to define where fair use and derivative work ends and plain copying starts. The laundering mentioned in the article will likely lead to a verdict that can be summarized as “this is why we can’t have nice things”.