An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
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An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
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Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#2> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset.
This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrestricted without dealing with lawyer nonsense.
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#3> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrest…
Rent seeking by owners of AI machines is OK, but not by copyright owners?
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#4Interestingly it shows the tenuous nature of the plaintiffs case, even before getting into the plaintiff's large errors.
Since reasonably simplified information about SD is available and/or the plaintiff could have involved an expert to review his claims - it does raise a question if the function of the lawsuit is more about rattling chains rather than the merits of their argument. I.E. A deliberate ploy to extract a settlement.
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#5> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrest…
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making. Its disheartening that artists can opt-out of having a computer algorithm make derivative versions of their creations?
I'm probably on the opposite side of the fence. I do find it disheartening that it's opt-out instead of opt-in. The training set should be limited to public domain and CC-0 until such a time it can comply with attribution; then other CC works could be incorporated.
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#6> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrest…
Rent seeking by owners of AI machines is OK, but not by copyright owners?
Yes. Abolish all copyright. Are we hackers or not?
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
#7> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrest…
Rent seeking by owners of AI machines is OK, but not by copyright owners?
I think creating art in the style of an artist is well covered by Fair Use.
Re: An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
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#9> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. This is incredibly disheartening. Who knows how long will it take to progress the tech to the point where anyone will be able to train and run models unrest…
It would be a spectacularly shitty world where IP protection is only granted to entities with a legal budget that eclipses the GDP of Antigua, and not to smaller independent creators.
The ends of having an useful model like stable diffusion doesn't really justify just ignoring the IP rights of tens of thousands of creators who were already having a pretty rough time making ends meet. That's just a shitty thing to do.