Andy Baio
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
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Their wordsgenerative AI models are all trained on a massive corpus of human-authored works without attribution, consent, or compensation, extracting value from creators while centralizing power among a tiny handful of massive tech companies.
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Their wordsIt's part of a broad trend happening across the web, where people are using AI to repackage, optimize, and replace the authoritative sources it was trained on for profit.
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Their wordsThat said, many Creative Commons-licensed images require attribution and non-commercial use. It's an open question whether this is a fair use of those images and can ignore those requirements.
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Their wordsAs far as I know, there's no way to remove images from the training data or to get the model to unlearn what it's learned from them.
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Their wordsTrue, but removing your data from the LAION dataset won't remove it from any of the models that were already trained with it.