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Spawning

6 months

We have updated with a new design to help make opting out your work even easier There is a new creator dashboard to manage your opt-outs, and receive updates on similar artworks we identify that you may want to add to your do-not-train list ❤️

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@spawning_

1 year

Excited to announce that @StabilityAI have stepped up to honor artist opt-out requests in advance of the training of Stable Diffusion 3! 🧫🦾🎇 Artists, register your opt-outs at Full explainer video here:

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@spawning_

1 year

We are thrilled to announce that our campaign to gather artist opt outs has resulted in 78 million artworks being opted out of AI training. This establishes a significant precedent towards realizing our vision of consenting AI, and we are just getting started!

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@spawning_

1 year

It's a real joy to announce our @huggingface partnership🙂 From today, eligible datasets hosted on Hugging Face will show a data report powered by our API, informing model trainers what data has been opted out and how to remove it. Another big step towards consenting training!

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@spawning_

8 months

Announcing 𒋧 Kudurru An AI web scraping defense network Join the Kudurru beta at Over the course of several months of research, we have developed methods to identify precisely who is web scraping for AI models and to shut down their access to creative

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@spawning_

1 year

The deadline for artist opt-outs for @StableDiffusion V3.0 is March 3rd We are also now happy to offer artist opt-ins at ! All delivered through our secure API, updated daily to honor artist wishes for their art

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Emad

@EMostaque

1 year

For those that want opt out of upcoming open SD 3.0 dataset release, please visit by @spawning_ by March 3rd. Dataset is based on @CommonCrawl so always respects robots.txt ie images usable by Google search AI etc, but collaborating to go further.

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Spawning

@spawning_

10 months

Our Spawning Browser Extension is now available on Chrome, allowing you to discover if the data on the web pages you browse has been included in public AI training sets. If you discover your work is included, you can choose to opt-out!

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@spawning_

2 years

Opt-out accounts are now live on Sign up and make lists of your art to opt-out of future AI model training. We will provide this data to organizations training models, and will soon offer opt-in too. Tag an artist to let them know!

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@spawning_

11 months

New feature: just got a *lot* more powerful with caption search 🔎 If you search your name, many more results will appear than before! If you are present in popular AI image datasets, this search will find you, and you can opt out in a few clicks :)

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Spawning

@spawning_

2 years

Spawning is building tools for artists to own and manage their AI training data Visit to see if you are present in the 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI Art models Sign up to opt out of, or opt into, AI training using our tools 🦾

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@spawning_

1 year

Announcing ai.txt! A machine readable way to restrict or permit the use of your site's content for commercial AI training

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@spawning_

8 months

Researchers at @Northeastern Bau Lab ( @davidbau ) have found a promising method for removing concepts from AI models. This is exciting research that may enable artists to opt out of already trained models! We are partnering to help collect a list of artists to remove in a study

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@spawning_

1 year

We only tested one case, but our findings suggest it is possible to deglaze glaze cloaked artworks. We applaud the motivations and effort behind this project, and have shared our approach with the development team (only).

We tested Glaze art cloaking

We seem to have bypassed it, and are sharing our findings with the developers.

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@spawning_

9 months

Our friends @huggingface just released OBELICS, a massive curated dataset of image-text web documents. Thanks to the team for using our API to respect creator opt-outs!

HuggingFaceM4/OBELICS · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

@ZakugaMignon @huggingface - you can use it to search for your work, or opt-out whole domains that you own

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

Our API is live, with artist opt-out requests updated daily! ⏰ Organizations training art models can now request an API token 🔑 Artists can register to opt-out at (opt-in coming soon!) One step closer to consenting AI data 🦾

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Spawning

@spawning_

7 months

If you think can't work, try asking ChatGPT.

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@spawning_

1 year

@StabilityAI we think this is a great opportunity to set a precedent for AI art moving forward. Leave any questions in the thread :)

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@spawning_

1 year

Opt out every image on your website from AI training, all at once!

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

From today, if you opt out your domain on to remove many images at once, then we'll also find exact copies from around the web and remove them for you! Much more news coming soon ⏳

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

to clear up any confusion, Spawning is an independent org building tools to help artists take control of their training data. We will deliver those requests to any org that steps up to honor them. We don't use the data for anything

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

We are proud to join @ContentAuth and support their efforts to create a universal standard of media provenance!

Content Authenticity Initiative

@ContentAuth

1 year

Welcoming the newest CAI members: Universal Music Group ( @UMG ), Stability AI ( @StabilityAI ) and Spawning AI ( @spawning_ )! An open community, flexible technology and provenance are core to the CAI’s mission. We're celebrating more than 1,000 community members and our newest

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

These requests are now available to orgs training AI through our API, and were made in advance of the training of Stable Diffusion V3. We commend @StabilityAI for being the first to honor artist requests, and hope that the success of this pilot encourages more to step up.

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

Opt out requests came through individual artists registered through , and also through collaborations with platforms committed to representing the interests of their artists.

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

The Data Sourcing report (powered by Spawning) displayed on dataset pages on @huggingface is now computed for *all* datasets that contain image URLs Another step for data governance in the AI age!🔥😀

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Spawning

@spawning_

5 months

We are temporarily suspending LAION 5B search results on Have I Been Trained until we are confident that the links to CSAM discovered by @stanfordio researchers have been removed from that dataset. This only impacts the search functionality of Have I Been Trained. You can still

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

We partnered with @ArtStationHQ to ensure opt out requests that have been made on their site are honored in our API, and will not be present in future AI model training with participating organizations.

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Spawning

@spawning_

8 months

Happy to respond to this analysis of 𒋧 Kudurru, claim by claim. Claim 1. IP addresses are challenging to blocklist, because they can be dynamically allocated We respond to scraping traffic in real time. Scrapers are identified, added to the blocklist, and then removed from the

Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️

@Knibbs

8 months

A skeptical view of the web scraping tool I wrote about yesterday—please read this, too. (And also, as always, keep in mind that large-scale solutions to this problem will almost certainly come from regulation!!)

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

We also partnered with @Shutterstock to opt-out images posted to all of their platforms (Shutterstock, Pond5, Turbosquid, BigStock) by default.

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

You can see the initiative in action here: By meeting model trainers where they source their data, we hope to make it effortless to honor creator wishes. Huge thank you to @huggingface for the support and collaboration!

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

We provided these services for free. We believe that consenting data will be of great benefit to both AI organizations and the people who these systems are trained on. We recently launched human verified artist opt-in, and have more tools and partnerships in the works.

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

If you are an artist looking to opt-in or opt-out of AI training, sign up for an account at A human will verify those artworks come from the right person!

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@spawning_

2 years

Our position on copyright and state legislation on AI is that what we are building will either augment artist options or compensate for a lack of artist options We think a consensual data standard suits all parties

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@spawning_

2 years

It certainly is not easy, but we are in conversations to make this process easier moving forward @chloexiang With some luck there will soon be consensus around consensual data. It benefits everyone.

AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out

In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

Our new open-source python package makes it effortless for AI developers to respect creator opt-outs! We cover multiple opt-out standards and will continue to incorporate new methods as they appear.

GitHub - Spawning-Inc/datadiligence: Respect generative AI opt-outs in your ML training pipeline.

Respect generative AI opt-outs in your ML training pipeline. - Spawning-Inc/datadiligence

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@spawning_

6 months

Our kudurru beta wordpress plug-in is live! Right now, it's blocking over 400 bots that are actively scraping AI datasets without respecting opt-outs. Learn more here:

Kudurru - Block AI Scrapers

Actively block AI scrapers from your website with Spawning's defense network

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

@EMostaque @CommonCrawl Opt ins incoming!!! 🦾

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@spawning_

1 year

You can now search and opt-out works per domain through with the site: command! Once a claim has been made for a domain, a human will assess the veracity of each request. One of many bulk tools we will be rolling out soon.

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@spawning_

8 months

Authors can now search the Books3 dataset with and add their work to our Do Not Train registry! . @theshawwn has offered to create a script removing opt-outs for model trainers We will monitor future datasets to opt-out any duplicates found

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

currently lets artists register their wishes to opt-out of AI training image-by-image We are looking for beta testers interested in testing our tools to register opt-outs in bulk 🔍 Reach out to bulk @spawning .ai if that sounds like you 🤝

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Spawning

@spawning_

11 months

we also recently launched de-duplication tools for creators. If you opt-out your work, we will automatically opt-out all identical matches to that work, and send near matches to your account for easy review. x

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@spawning_

3 months

Two days ago, we relaunched the LAION-5B dataset search tool after implementing CSAM-prevention in response to David Thiel’s Stanford study, which identified CSAM in the dataset. It’s been less than 48 hours, and we’re seeing the impact of those

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

If you are an organization looking to honor artist requests in your models, reach out to info @spawning .ai Thanks everyone, big day!

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@spawning_

11 months

Thank you, @mfrankDude for pointing out that the new caption searches on use the search terms in any order! Today we've added an ordered search option using quotes. So quoting "artist name" will match the terms in order and return even better results!

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Michael Frank

@mfrankDude

11 months

For example ( @martinmcneil I hope you don't mind). The search "martin mcneil" will look for image captions that contain both "martin" and "mcneil", in any order. The text just needs to contain both words. See #1 and #2

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Spawning

@spawning_

1 year

in plain English, this means anyone who wants to honor artist consent requests can receive automatic daily updates on what artwork to not include in their training. Stability AI have committed to honoring artist wishes, we hope more come on board soon

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@spawning_

1 year

Happy to share our funding announcement and roadmap on the way to building the creator consent layer for AI! Our new API is live, with 1 bn images (and counting) opted out to date, making it easy for model trainers to honor creator wishes.

Our Seed Round of Funding to Build the Creator Consent Layer for AI

Sharing the Spawning roadmap

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@spawning_

1 year

80m 😊

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@spawning_

11 months

New feature in beta If you opted out works through we already automatically opt-out exact copies for you On your account we now offer a simple *near duplicate* interface to make it as easy as possible to see if there is anything we missed 🤝

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@spawning_

1 year

If you are an organization looking to join this effort and opt-out your data, reach out to bulk @spawning .ai

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@spawning_

1 year

Our latest opt-out count is 1.4 Billion artworks opted out of AI training. Up 400m from last announcement.

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@spawning_

2 years

Twitter finally unlocked our account so we can respond to comments now 🦾

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@spawning_

1 year

For opt-ins, we are currently not accepting AI artworks. Most will have been made with models trained on images artists may want opted out. We also feel the best model performance will come from non-AI generated training data. Consenting data is in everyone's interests

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@spawning_

8 months

@ZakugaMignon We made it, hopefully that is worth something.

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@spawning_

8 months

Be aware that if you participate, the modified model and removed artist list will be made public. Anyone testing the model might choose to use your name to validate the results. With that in mind, it is an important opportunity to contribute to great research!

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@spawning_

1 year

this is part of a longer list of tools we will be rolling out soon to make the opt-out process as effortless as possible.

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@spawning_

1 year

We also built a @WordPress plugin to make adding AI training permissions to your site as effortless as possible for Wordpress users

GitHub - Spawning-Inc/spawning-wp-plugin: Building the consent layer for AI

Building the consent layer for AI. Contribute to Spawning-Inc/spawning-wp-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@spawning_

1 year

We are nearly done preparing our opt-outs and opt-ins for tomorrow's deadline, where they will be delivered to @StabilityAI Head to to register your wishes The response so far has been remarkable, and we feel will establish a strong precedent :)

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@spawning_

1 year

@gorogregoro @huggingface you can do so through :)

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@spawning_

3 months

Stability AI’s newest text-to-image models, Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Cascade, respected opt-outs made through Spawning’s Do Not Train Registry. We think even more model trainers will be honoring opt-outs in the future. Check out our substack about the EU’s text and data

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@spawning_

2 months

Opting out of AI training can be difficult. We built three tools to make it easier.

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@spawning_

1 year

@TheAmazingArson we operate under the assumption that most interactions with gen AI at scale will happen on interfaces a user does not customize, and with the latest models. Ideologically we agree it should have been opt in first, but we can only do our best to move the needle towards that.

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@spawning_

1 year

@JonLamArt @The_Row_House @RemmeltE @ravenben We agree with that

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@spawning_

8 months

@ravenben @neilturkewitz @BlancheMinerva Good to see you! To be fair, half of your claims were misunderstandings about what Kudurru is, so were answered definitively. In our beta network we are getting around 500k image requests per day from 50 IPs. Extrapolate that to whole datasets. Massive traffic. Obviously

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@spawning_

1 year

@SunsetNiva this is a good point. NSFW covers most needs, I will ask team how to address your case

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@spawning_

1 year

Opt-ins will undergo a human verification process To opt-in, make an account, and email us (from the same email) at verify @spawning .ai, including any relevant links to your online identity This information will only be used for verification purposes Thanks!

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@spawning_

1 year

Using our generator, you can select which media types to block or allow for AI training, and download a file to upload to your root directory

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1 year

@advadnoun @StabilityAI signups so far have been promising! This is the first step and I hope it is well received, it has taken a lot of hard work and good will

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1 year

@jonoringer @photomatt @EMostaque @CommonCrawl @Shutterstock @WordPress we are contributing to a group working on an ai.txt idea right now, would happily share progress!

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@spawning_

1 year

@0xmaddie_ @StabilityAI first step of many

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@spawning_

1 year

@gootarts @StabilityAI not currently but we are working on making this easier (that's a great suggestion)

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@spawning_

1 year

@poly_cloud @StabilityAI our position is that our efforts will either augment future legislation or compensate for its absence. Legislation across jurisdictions is going to differ. What we can build today is the ability to offer a way for artists to register their wishes, and organizations to honor them

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@spawning_

1 year

's new search menu makes opting out entire websites from AI training even easier! Coming this month, we'll also automatically opt out copies of your images that we find across the web.

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@spawning_

8 months

If you would like to participate, reply in this thread, and please also forward along to any artists who you think might be interested! We will manually verify any names against your twitter account

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@spawning_

1 year

Use command site:yoursite to find, claim and opt-out your domain. Soon: effortless opt-out of your work across the web.

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@spawning_

1 year

Our approach has been contested so we will run a longer, repeatable, test tonight and report back

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1 year

@stealcase 40+k individual opt outs on hibt, the rest were partners. Some unnamed. We have Bulk opt out tools to roll out for individual artists soon ready to go. Was too early for SD deadline but we now know they work from partner examples

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@spawning_

1 year

Spawning is building a consent layer for generative AI, and has already begun working closely with the CAI team to ensure any consent requests are integrated seamlessly into AI developer workflows.

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@spawning_

1 year

@svltart a) we collect verified opt-ins, and have advocated for the position for many years, but are realistic that in a competitive field that may not happen b) TDM opt-outs like in the EU may be the best claim anyone has to their work. The more that insist, the more likely it works.

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1 year

We will stop working on requests for the SD deadline at 10pm CET/4pm ET/1pm PST today Will summarize results soon, an overwhelming response and a big step.

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@spawning_

8 months

Thanks to @Knibbs for making the introduction while writing her excellent piece for @WIRED

The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry—and who controls it.

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1 year

@ZakugaMignon @huggingface you can search by image (we don't keep images you use), and it will show you all the closest results

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1 year

@cAIts10381299 @StabilityAI working on it!

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8 months

If you would like to participate in a study attempting to remove artists from already trained AI models, respond to this thread!

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@spawning_

8 months

Researchers at @Northeastern Bau Lab ( @davidbau ) have found a promising method for removing concepts from AI models. This is exciting research that may enable artists to opt out of already trained models! We are partnering to help collect a list of artists to remove in a study

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1 year

@EMostaque thanks for the support Emad!

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1 year

@ArtMaranda SD v3 will begin training shortly after. Opt outs and opt ins will be registered continuously and provided for any later trainings too

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2 years

@0x113d @niftypins @TombSeries @ZORAEngineering 🧫🧫🧫🧫

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8 months

@zipavika idiots? damn :) This is an incorrect analysis of how Kudurru works. We will publish why.

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1 year

Robust common standards for authenticity, provenance, and consent will serve as a critical foundation to support artists in the AI economy, and we are committed to ensure that the wishes of artists are represented throughout the growing CAI network.

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1 year

@_w0bb1t_ @sayashk with respect to the authors, we agree that its not enough, however they are incorrect in saying that "The law does not bind developers of generative AI tools to respect opt-outs". It actually does, at least in the EU, which is why we focussed on it.

Protecting Creatives or Impeding Progress? – Open Future

As generative machine learning (ML) becomes more widespread, the issue of copyright and ML input is back in focus. This post explores the EU legal framework governing the use of copyrighted works for...

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@neilturkewitz @mmitchell_ai @random_walker @sayashk we might agree on opt-in only being an ideal, but that is besides the point regarding what options are available to artists currently. We are pursuing those options, and will make default opt-out effortless. Those tools weren't ready in time for SD deadline, but give us a break

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1 year

@wille179 @runningcritter1 more tests need to be done and the devs have been told our approach to be able to run them. If it takes <20 secs to deglaze 8 images that took hours to glaze it is in artists interests to be aware of that.

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1 year

@katriadoodles @StabilityAI @matdryhurst and yes. We don't do anything with the data other than register wishes for images tagged (explained in video)

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1 year

@EMostaque opt-in too soon :)

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1 year

@ArtStationHQ thanks so much for joining this effort!

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2 years

@radioclashblog thanks, will do!

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1 year

@minxdragon feedback noted, I think that is a very interesting dimension to contemplate moving forward. thank you

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1 year

@svltart we opted out 80m images. Math is great, but it didn't factor the adversarial approach we took, so we let them know, and tested it. Perhaps it is more robust than we found.

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1 year

We posted a full explanation of how ai.txt works and why we feel it is necessary to our substack