#Adobe used images from #Midjourney to train its “ethical” #AI. Now, it’s using Ansel Adams’ name and artistic style to in its tools. Adobe’s position against using unlicensed works to train LLMs was never one of principle. Rather, it already had access to copyrighted works, so “ethical” was a means to exclude competition while concurrently violating the principle anyway. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112552260437207900
Arrakis, 10,193 CE: Paul Muad'Dib Atreides uses his abilities as the Kwisatz Haderach, "he who can pwn many servers at once", to run a large worm program on the Imperial Regional Utilization Local Area Network (IruLAN), enabling a privilege-escalation exploit which gives him root access to Imperial IT. The Bene Gesserit managers are furious; the Mentat sysadmins secretly admire Paul's hack.
But think about it, #Midjourney AI accuses #Stability AI of stealing #images that they carried out by stealing images from #artists all over the world, but it wasn't fair use?
🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate
"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."