Oct 16, 2022Confirmed
Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
What this means for youIf you make images or art, your work may have been used to train image generators without permission, which can matter for how you license and protect it. Governments may need clearer rules on whether scraping copyrighted images for AI training is allowed.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/451
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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