Nov 20, 2022Confirmed
Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
What this means for youAt home, if you make art or photos, your work may have been used to train image generators without your consent. At work, companies using these tools may face copyright claims. In government, this is a live question about whether training data needs permission or payment.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/421
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
Source data license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (database). Report contents keep their own rights; reports.text, submissions, images and videos are excluded from the data license.
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