Comment on Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft'

halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• anlumo@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are wrong. Theft means depriving someone of having something, and that’s not the case here. It’s more a “they’re taking our jobs” kind of situation.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forget all the images that “AI” models are trained on without consent or payment. Plus as you say, that training could result in the same artists losing work. Double theft, of IP and future income.

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    • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I look at art without paying anyone, I guess I’m stealing.

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      • halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Important difference between you and an ML model: you can enjoy that art (YMMV), the ML never will.

        There is a similar distinction between artists and galleries putting artwork to the public, and corporations auto-scraping billions of artwork for a statistical engine to mass produce qualitatively lesser versions.

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    • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should read this article by Kit Walsh, a senior staff attorney at the EFF, and this one by Cory Doctorow.

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    • anlumo@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All artists train themselves on others artwork, most probably unpaid.

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      • halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow. All artists throughout history just facedesked at that comment.

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  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what I’ve been saying! At most it’s piracy

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