I have a question? Do we just not give a damn anymore?
As someone that works on IP's it baffles me how if a logo, shoe or face is too close to an existing design or actor I can get the company sued but it's okay for AI to blatantly infringe & the rules are different?
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Midjourney is a paid software by the way, so they are making money from providing people the ability to infringe. They can block words all they want, anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes with these tools knows how easy it is to get around.
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I can't legally slap some nike's on a commercial piece of art and sell it. Nike would sue the company I work for.
Fan art gets a bit tricky. Technically it isn't strictly legal but it's relatively harmless, small scale & often beneficial so companies turn a blind eye.
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AI users are creating fan art
Midjourney is creating a commercial product
AI users hoping to use the tools commercially are using infringement gens & mj is trying to push the legal burden on users.
Better have a sharp eye or your AI background or details might get you sued.
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What happens if you the AI user doesn't know you are infringing? Say you make something that unintentionally implicates a brand in something they don't want, but you had no clue what the brand even was, the AI made that decision. AI companies would say you are still at fault.
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Still some silly willy's that aren't getting it.
Yes I can use photoshop to copy paste or create infringment inside.
The difference is, photoshop can NOT have infringing, fonts, brushes, stamps, images etc that come pre packaged inside their software without licensing it.
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Companies like MJ know what they are doing, the intention of infringment falls on them. Otherwise they would have currated to datasets to not include infringing material but they know people want to meme celebrities and pop culture, so they are happy to sell that priviledge.
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Those criticizing diffusion understand how it works we are challenging the fair use argument and ethics
Purpose - Often commercial
Source nature - creative & sometimes unpublished
Amount - Full bodies of work including the heart
Market effect - unfair competition & automation
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@EZE3D
I don’t see large corporations bringing suit because although it’s rough output at the moment and “unauthorized” they are going to get to fire hundreds of thousands of creators once it’s fully capable of ripping those people’s work off.
It’s an apocalypse
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Well, how exactly are the rules different?
Just like you, if the AI produces something too close to existing IP because a client asked for it, and the client decides to use it, they can also get sued.
If someone asks me as an artist to draw a checkmark, asks for a revision to…
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