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Artists & Consent!
You know how you can wear clothes that "confuse" AI systems? This is like that, but to disguise art you share online so AI can't learn from it.
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
Thanks for the reporting
@kashhill !
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/technology/ai-art-generator-lensa-stable-diffusion.html

February 13, 2023 at 10:39:58 PM

@meg @kashhill Another useful advance would be to inject a detectable style watermark that could be used in legal proceedings to sanction the ML pirates.

@karabaic @meg @kashhill

iirc the Getty watermark appears in Stable Diffusion images, and they cite it in their lawsuit

@karabaic @meg @kashhill

yeah, here's the link showing some of the images https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion

The Verge

Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement

Getty Images has filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, accusing the company of using 12 million Getty Images to train its model without permission. It’s the latest salvo in the ongoing legal war between rights’ holders and AI startups.

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@meg @bwaber @kashhill

I’m speaking of something slightly different, an undetectable watermark. Inspired by the backdoor training paper from about a year ago.

@meg @kashhill This and the "victim artist" label is the best illustration of MidJourney I have seen!

@meg @kashhill Super cool.