Earlier quoted context omitted.
>also have to wonder what the implications would have been if NovelAI ended up launching what is now the leaked model as a paid service huh? It was launched as a paid (subscription only) service before even getting leaked.
Yes, you're right, sorry. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that. Looking back it seems many in the Japanese community on Twitter aren't happy with discovering their art is being used as training data. In the last week since the NovelAI announcement the number of banned artists on Danbooru has doubled, approximately the same amount as all the banned artists that were registered in the site's entire histor…
Aside from reposting on Danbooru, training usage is explicitly allowed without original creator's permission by Japan law. https://storialaw.jp/en/service/bigdata/bigdata-12
Possibly that's why artists taking down from Danbooru , it's their right.