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FyreMael t1_j7iqqhb wrote

Getty is a blatant copyright infringer themselves.

Also, LAION gathered the images via crowdsourcing. I participated.

Y'all need to brush up on the law.

For the US, here is the current legal code for copyright law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17

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currentscurrents t1_j7iwvii wrote

> Also, LAION gathered the images via crowdsourcing. I participated.

I don't think the data collection methodology is really relevant. However the dataset was gathered, there are certainly ways to use it that would violate copyright. You couldn't print it in a book for example.

The important question is if training a generative AI on copyrighted data is a violation of copyright. US copyright law doesn't address this because AI didn't exist when it was written. It will be up to the courts to decide how this new application interacts with the law.

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