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I'm old enough to remember how @creativecommons was founded as a way for independent creators to safely share their work and build upon each other.

In 2024, their take is now "billion dollar companies plagiarizing your art is fair use".

creativecommons.org/2023/02/17…

Hats off to the author, you don't see that kind of, uh, skillful rhetoric chicanery every day. Like "generative AI doesn't compete with artists because artists are not in the data market". 😬

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Excerpt from the article: Given this, perhaps it is better to ask whether this use as training data, not as pieces of art, harms the market for the original. This use by Stability AI and Midjourney exists in an entirely different market from the original works. It does not usurp the market of the original and it does not operate as a market substitute because the original works were not in the data market. Moreover, this use as training data does not “supersede the objects” of the originals and does not compete in the aesthetic market with the originals.

Fair Use: Training Generative AI - Creative Commons

While generative AI as a tool for artistic expression isn’t truly new — AI has been used to create art since at least the 1970s and the art auction house Christie’s sold its first piece of AI artwork in 2018 — the past year launched this exciting and…
Nate Angell (Creative Commons)
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