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girlwarlock · 2 years ago

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feeling a lil hopeless re art being used w/o permission for ai training sets

one of the things that kind of makes me despair a bit [and i have to consciously push that feeling down] with regard to people scraping vast swaths of media to train machine learning algorithms to make digital art or to imitate voices or churn out trash-tier derivative fiction or whatever is like...

how do you stop it? strengthening IP law is the kneejerk response but any kind of ''IP owners can dictate what kind of transformative works can be based on their IP'' regulations will immediately be used by eg disney to banhammer fanart they don't like, and would be too expensive for the majority of individual artists to engage with if they wanted to use it.

you can try to exert pressure on consumer preference but a lot of the pressure driving development of ai art [and the theft of artists' works to fuel it] comes from businesses that don't want to pay already-underpaid artists in order to get their cover art or ad images or whatever--what the average person online wants matters less than what publishers and ad agencies and whatever want.

a universal basic income would allow artists to be creative full time even when large customers refuse to use them, but that would make rich people's money slightly sad, so it's forbidden under capitalism.

i just- what do you do?

#ai training #ai art generation #ai narration #ai voice #tag novel #inb4 everyone saying ''traditional-media art still exists even though photoshop'' it's a little different because like #using photoshop is still a skill that you have to learn and get good at and it's mostly not used to make rapid low-effort copies of works #so that you steal the traditional-media artist's work from under them. like. they're not the same thing #this got inspired by a thing bibliosphere was posting about where apple was claiming the right to use the audio from authors' audiobooks #as training grist for voice-imitation algorithms even though the authors submitting said audiobooks may not have the right to #give apple said permission--while they /may/ have purchased the audio version outright it's apparently uncommon #but the service was asking authors for this permission rather than asking the voice workers whose work would be used

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