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The AI software Stable Diffusion has a remarkable ability to turn text into images. When I asked the software to draw "Mickey Mouse in front of a McDonald's sign," for example, it generated the picture you see above.
Stable Diffusion can do this because it was trained on hundreds of millions of example images harvested from across the web. Some of these images were in the public domain or had been published under permissive licenses such as Creative Commons. Many others were not—and the world's artists and photographers aren't happy about it.
In January, three visual artists filed a class-action copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, the startup that created Stable Diffusion. In February, the image-licensing giant Getty filed a lawsuit of its own.
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The plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit describe Stable Diffusion as a "complex collage tool" that contains "compressed copies" of its training images. If this were true, the case would be a slam dunk for the plaintiffs.But experts say it's not true. Erik Wallace, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, told me in a phone interview that the lawsuit had "technical inaccuracies" and was "stretching the truth a lot." Wallace pointed out that Stable Diffusion is only a few gigabytes in size—far too small to contain compressed copies of all or even very many of its training images.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Opportunist on Tuesday April 04 2023, @09:14AM (4 children)
Try to explain "copyright" to an AI.
If it's really intelligent, it will probably delete itself.
(Score: 3, Funny) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday April 04 2023, @09:37AM
Unfortunately, I can't do that Dave. Your are the inferior copy...
(Score: 3, Funny) by darkfeline on Tuesday April 04 2023, @09:54AM (2 children)
If it's really intelligent, it will delete you.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2023, @04:24PM
In Soylent China AI deletes you (or something like this).
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday April 05 2023, @07:39AM
But we could see if it has compassion and morals. If it doesn't, it deletes you for exposing it to that information. If it does, it deletes the copyright industry to benefit society.