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Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The article does a very good job at show how it isn't stealing. Particularlly this part:

Fair use protects reverse engineering, indexing for search engines, and other forms of analysis that create new knowledge about works or bodies of works. Here, the fact that the model is used to create new works weighs in favor of fair use as does the fact that the model consists of original analysis of the training images in comparison with one another.

This isn't a new way of "stealing" it's just a way to analyze and reverse engineer images so you can make your own original works. In the US, the first major case that established reverse engineering as fair use was Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc in 1992, and then affirmed in Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation in 2000. So this is not new at all.

I understand that you are passionate about this topic, and that you have strong opinions on the legal and ethical issues involved. However, using profanity, insults, and exaggerations isn't helping this discussion. It only creates hostility and resentment, and undermines your credibility. If you're interested, we can have a discussion in good faith, but if your next comment is like this one, I won't be replying.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I understand that you are passionate about this topic, and that you have strong opinions on the legal and ethical issues involved. However, using profanity, insults, and exaggerations isn’t helping this discussion. It only creates hostility and resentment, and undermines your credibility. If you’re interested, we can have a discussion in good faith, but if your next comment is like this one, I won’t be replying.

Not doing any of that, but okay.

Edit: I guess I was cussing, lol. It's the internet and I think you'll be fine.