FlumPHP@programming.dev to Technology@kbin.social · 10 months agoGetty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed imageswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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minus-squarelemonflavoured@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoTo me the obvious answer would be to pay people a small amount per photo for pictures of various things and then use that as training data.
minus-squarelps2@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoThat’s expensive and companies would rather not pay while the law is unclear on using copywrited images in a training set
minus-squarelemonflavoured@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoThe thing is that for medium to large companies it’s probably less expensive to pay people a nominal fee for pictures than it would be to risk being sued by, say, Disney, Nintendo, WWE or Games Workshop (to use some famously litigious companies).
To me the obvious answer would be to pay people a small amount per photo for pictures of various things and then use that as training data.
That’s expensive and companies would rather not pay while the law is unclear on using copywrited images in a training set
The thing is that for medium to large companies it’s probably less expensive to pay people a nominal fee for pictures than it would be to risk being sued by, say, Disney, Nintendo, WWE or Games Workshop (to use some famously litigious companies).