Class Action Filed Against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt
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Class Action Filed Against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for DMCA Violations, Right of Publicity Violations, Unlawful Competition, Breach of TOS
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-filed-against-stability-ai-midjourney-and-deviantart-for-dmca-violations-right-of-publicity-violations-unlawful-competition-breach-of-tos-301721869.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJV33YVcwFA About time those thieves get to face their responsibilities. I am just afraid however that if they win, the end will come for artists and creators. Forum pvp Last bumped on Feb 3, 2023, 8:24:32 PM
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Fuck Midjourney.
https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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DeviantArt, eh...
Used to be a great place but, at least for me, has been going downhill fast over the last years. Also, they stopped caring about copyright violations on their site ages ago - unless a deviant nicked stuff from folks that were known to be armed to the teeth with lawyers, like Disney. It got so bad that it became almost impossible for me to just browse my favourite galleries because there were so, so, so many stolen images, memes and crappy screenshots - and none of the GMs cared. So, I'm not surprised that they are devolving further. :P Exit, pursued by a Plummeting Ursa.
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Even if they do win the case, the ship has sailed, at least imo. The technology is only going to get better, faster, and more intelligent.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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And the laws never keep up. Sometimes they never even catch up.
As I said to a friend on the matter, if the AI can somehow use elements of others' work and the original artist/s simply can't see their own work in it, then you can consider that an original work of itself. What will have happened then is the AI has its own palette and its own way of using it. But as long as we can look at AI 'art' and see distinct elements from human work, the AI is doing nothing more than collage. In other words, you can't take a writer to court for using the same three hundred words as any other writer. You can, however, take a writer to court if they use the same one hundred words as any other writer if they happen to be arranged in a certain way. And yes, AI will get there. It's just not there yet. And if Midjourney and DA and even recently reddit want to experiment with that, I think that's fine. Just as long as they don't try to monetise it or claim it's an original work. Which I know they do. And that is where good old-fashioned human judgment and human laws need to kick in. Last week an AI got banned from twitch by the automated algorithm for hate speech. Take a moment to let that sentence set in. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Last edited by Foreverhappychan on Jan 15, 2023, 8:55:05 PM
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Worth a read for those interested:
http://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.com/ As much as I'd be entirely content to see a world where at least the bigger commercial AI platforms are compensating artists whose works are used (though that would probably end up even more pitifully tiny than something like Spotify etc), it is sounding like a fairly uninspired retread of typical anti-AI-art misinformation and paranoia. "Hah, seems like it got a fair amount of coverage on geek news sites, but it's surely a bit of a non-story. The situation is no different to any other chatbot - or, for that matter, even vastly simpler automated tools like a scheduled email. It would, after all, be absurd if sites were to ignore their moderation policies because the message came from a computer program; every arsehole on the internet would just program bots to say awful shit on their behalf, and every arsehole who couldn't program would gather around and celebrate the awful shit being said with impunity. |
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Yeah, that's pretty much it. It was less Neuro's actual hate speech inclination (completely goaded by the usual suspects) than the hate speech Neuro might incite/encourage/enable. A two-week ban to show due diligence.
Still, I do think it's worth keeping an eye on the growing dependence on automated moderation and an algorithm that even now doesn't know the difference between discussion ABOUT something and promotion OF it, in conjunction with the rise of as-yet babysat AI with no capacity to moderate either the about or the of. Nuance is the last thing AI will learn, if we're very, very, very lucky. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
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My earlier response to this thread was removed by a Mod for breaching the Code of Conduct "needless negative etc etc"
The one thing really absurd about AI is that it is programmed by humans. And that is a real worry. 😹😹😹😹😹
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surely it would be an even bigger worry if AI was being programmed by anything other than a human tho?
by hamsters? by aliens?? by other computers??? terrifying |
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" Humans are the most terrifying entities on this planet :) 😹😹😹😹😹
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