Isn’t chromium open source? How are the APIs a secret?

What if they kept the green color just to troll…

That makes them a humongous database

I understand why you’re saying that, but I personally don’t agree. As AIs face legal challenges, maybe your opinion will be adopted, we’ll see.

I really do not believe midjourney is storing all the files on the Internet in a humongous database. They are just exposing the AI to them for training just like you expose your computer to them when you visit with your web browser. I’m happy to be wrong about this, but I’m just not convinced. Please try to keep your temper.

I don’t think anyone is advocating to legalize the sale of copyrighted material made via AI.

When you look at a picture of the joker online, your browser is caching an image file of the joker on your computer. Is that not an illegal copy?

The framebuffer on your computer copies the data to display the font to you. That’s my point. Not every form of copying infringes on copyright.

The stuff I sell on jilanico.com? Enough to make it worth my while.

That’s a good point. Musicians have been known to accidentally reproduce the same beat as another musician (was is done subconsciously or just coincidence?). Some books are strikingly similar to other books that it makes you wonder if it was a rip off or just coincidence. So it’s nothing new, but it may become more prevalent with AI. This could spawn a new industry of investigators ensuring your AI generated art isn’t infringing on any copyrights 🤔

Most of the stuff that inspires me probably wasn’t paid for. I just randomly saw it online or on the street, much like an AI.

AI using straight up pirated content does give me pause tho.

That’s an interesting point. We’re forced to make a judgement call because we don’t have total control over what it generates.

Looking at a copyrighted font with your computer means the font is in your computer’s memory. Do I go to jail for every site I visit that uses a fancy font?

Font files ≠ framebuffer

Images ≠ neural network weights

Some do. Should we jail all the talented artists with photographic memories?

If you asked me to draw an Italian video game character, I’d draw Mario too. Why can’t an AI make copyrighted character inspired pics as long as they aren’t being sold?

I think the onus is on the user of the AI. I could use Photoshop to make a joker pic and sell it for money. Should Photoshop be banned? The AI lets me do the same thing faster.

I agree, but I don’t think these generative AIs actually store image files off the Internet in a massive database. I could be wrong.

So stable diffusion, midjourney, etc., all have massive databases with every picture on the Internet stored in them? I know the AI models are trained on lots of images, but are the images actually stored? I’m skeptical, but I’m no expert.

It’s too hard to type up how generative AIs work, but look up a video on “how stable diffusion works” or something like that. I seriously doubt they have a massive database with every image from the Internet inside it, with the AI just spitting those pics out, but I’m no expert.

Tons of human made art isn’t inspired by nature. Rather it’s inspired by other human made art. Neural networks don’t just copy paste like a yt plagiarist. You can ask an AI to plagiarize but no guarantee it’ll get it right.

That’s why I put inspired in quotes. It’s analogous to a human seeing something on the Internet and coming up with similar art or building upon it.