AI Art Models Face Legal and Ethical Controversy Over Use of Unlicensed Creative Work
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Generative AI models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are trained on billions of images scraped from the internet without permission, raising legal and ethical issues.
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Artists like Greg Rutkowski have found their unique styles being mimicked by AI without consent. Other games and stories have been copied as well.
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Lawsuits are underway over privacy violations, harmful content, and copyright infringement in AI datasets and models. The legal outcomes remain uncertain.
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Beyond legality, the large-scale use of unlicensed creative work could destabilize industries and make it impossible to train future AI only on human-authored content.
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Small, vulnerable creative communities and individuals laid the groundwork for many beloved games. If AI threatens their livelihoods, it could have far-reaching negative consequences for the future of the industry.