Comment on AutoStudio: Crafting Consistent Subjects in Multi-turn Interactive Image Generation
felsiq@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoWhether or not you agree with AI image generation, the authors of this study have pulled off something impressive. This particular study isn’t going to be the single most important thing to humanity this year, sure, but they made a pretty clever stride in pushing a developing field forward and you don’t need to be excited about the field itself to appreciate that.
I’m assuming your dislike for AI image generation is based on the plagiarism issue, which is absolutely valid, but model architecture is separate from training data and the concepts here are perfectly usable with a more moral training set. The companies scraping all the data - OpenAI, google, and to a much lesser extent stability AI - are the ones to blame for that problem, not researchers working on model architecture.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Have you read this article by Cory Doctorow yet?
felsiq@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I hadn’t, and it was definitely worth reading so thanks for the link. I’m still not sure exactly where I stand on the big AI companies relentlessly scraping everything for training data, but that was very convincing that copyright laws aren’t the solution (and I already believed better labour laws were needed for artists, though the details of exactly how music artists are getting shafted were new to me). Thanks for the link!
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Big companies own large swathes of internet content already. The worst thing that could happen to us is new laws allowing them to band together into a data cartel that would keep us from benefitting from our shared world culture in the same way they exploit it for profit. We have everything to lose, because the second it becomes profitable, they’ll burn it all down, like they do with countless live service games, entire social networks, and movies.