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Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustrator, sparking a debate about the ethics of reproducing a living artist's style. I talked to that artist to see how she felt about it, and the person who made it. https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/

Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model - Waxy.org

How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
Andy Baio (Waxy.org)
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Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane
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Wow, a kicker of a last paragraph. After dancing uncomfortably around the first artist's objections, they went and did the same thing to another artist. They could have just... not.
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Andy Baio
Andy Baio
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It's pretty clear he thinks the only legitimate objection is the naming, so he just stripped it of any attribution. Solved!
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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A natural progression of treating people as data that the web industry was built on, wouldn’t you say?

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #bigData #ai #machineLearning #siliconValley
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fudguy
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What an interesting reading, thanks for your work.

I agree with your statement on this. The issue is a bit harder to address than classic #peopleFarming. How can an artist choose to opt-out from this? @aral
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