AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
I&#x27;m hooked on Stable Diffusion. It&#x27;s the most impressive sudden leaps in technology in my 30 or so years of being old enough to understand it. Much of the power it has, is based on the material it is trained on, and I&#x27;m very appreciative of the work and effort that was made in order to make it what it is. And, it&#x27;s only getting started.<p>That said...<p>I get it. Huggingface are working on a diffusion based model for music. And guess what? It&#x27;s extremely important for them to only use opt-in or commissioned training data. Why? Because the music industry, unlike artists on artstation and the likes, have a lot of lawyers and can protect their copyrighted works.<p>Why should it really be any different for visual arts? I honestly don&#x27;t see why. That isn&#x27;t to say I&#x27;m not going to keep on using stable diffusion, nor do I think there is anything that can be done to stop it. But, I do think artists should be compensated, and such models should not be based on the work of anyone, unless they want it to be.