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isekaihero@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

No that’s not how it works. AI models don’t carry a repository of images. They use algorithms. The model itself is a few gigabytes where as the training data would be petabytes - far larger than I could fit on my home desktop running stable diffusion.

It actually is close to how humans do it. You’re thinking “it’s copying that image” and it’s not. It’s using algorithms to create an image in a similar style. It knows different artistic styles because it has been fed a repository of millions of images in that style and can generate similar images in that style.

As for copyright, it was recently all over social media that AI could copy studio ghibli’s art style. To the rage of social media and their fanbase, this is allowed. Studio Ghibli can’t copyright an art style, and that’s why AI image generators continue to include the option to generate art in that art style.

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RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I never said that the images were saved. I said that the AI was trained to copy the images, not that it had a way to check them after it trained

Even though both can “know” styles, the methods used to train humans and AI and how they act is completely different. A human doesnt start with noise and gradually removes it to create an image

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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s not a popular opinion but you’re entirely right.

AI isn’t copying in the way that most people think it is. It truly is transformative in all the tradition copyright ways.

Is it copyright infringements if my company pays an employee to study the internet and that makes them capable of animating a frame from the Simpsons? No, it’s copyright infringement when that company publishes that copyright infringing work.

The reality is that copyright has always been a nonsense system and ‘fair use’ concepts were also nonsense and arbitrary. AI algorithms just let us expose how nonsense they are at scale.

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