Did the authors of the content consent to being included in the "large data sets"? Have they been contacted, assuming they are alive, of course, and given the opportunity to opt out instead of being automatically opted in? I just read an article that midjourney supports prompts as "draw me in the style of this or that artist" who's alive, and the author hasn't been asked the permission to be included in the dataset. So, yes, it is a form of stealing. But to me, the art generated by AI is soulless, and at some subconscious level, the brain can perceive it.
Just think humans with no freckles or moles - you can tell they're not real but they are still the very definition of an average depiction because no two freckles are identical (or identically distributed!) and hence are not encrypted in the data set.
I think what midjourney does is stealing.
You're wrong. It's algorithmic content creation using a mathematical formula derived from observation of large data sets.
It doesn't steal anything.
Copying is just the identity function; the question is *which* formula
Did the authors of the content consent to being included in the "large data sets"? Have they been contacted, assuming they are alive, of course, and given the opportunity to opt out instead of being automatically opted in? I just read an article that midjourney supports prompts as "draw me in the style of this or that artist" who's alive, and the author hasn't been asked the permission to be included in the dataset. So, yes, it is a form of stealing. But to me, the art generated by AI is soulless, and at some subconscious level, the brain can perceive it.
Yep, exactly. Shoutout to Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org) for his work on highlighting this.
Just think humans with no freckles or moles - you can tell they're not real but they are still the very definition of an average depiction because no two freckles are identical (or identically distributed!) and hence are not encrypted in the data set.