Aiko wrote:Doing so is actually and then publishing the resulting art is a bit of a legal gray area. A lot of the images used in the training sets have been included without the artists' permission. Whether that sort of use violates copyright is still being debated.
But... since we are at this point now. Would any producer or artist here object to having their work used in AI training?
Personally I would not mind unless the resulting artwork looks too much like a rip-off of something I created.
As I've heard it explained, these AI-generated images are not simple "remixes" of existing art. They are fully original creations, even if the "creator" is just an algorithm. All a training model does is inform the code what something is, objects, people, etc. Think of them as knock-offs. Disney can't claim copyright over Rickey the Rat just because it's a knock-off Mickey.
Now, everything I just said applies to the (in)famous Dalle 2, but I'm not sure how exactly other AI image generators work exactly, they may be different.