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Just found out my AI art generator was trained mostly on my own DeviantArt uploads
I was looking through the training data disclosure for one of those big models last night and found that over 40% of its art reference pool came from artists in my own community group on DeviantArt. Nobody asked us, nobody credited us, and our styles are now being churned out for free. How are we supposed to protect our work when even the data files are hidden behind legal mumbo jumbo?
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angelarivera12d ago
Did you see that article about how some companies are using public domain laws to scrape art without permission? It's totally messed up that your own community's work got fed back into the system like that.
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thomas_sanchez12d ago
A buddy of mine who runs a small print shop found out one of those AI art farms scraped his whole Etsy catalog. He didn't even know until a customer showed him a print that looked just like his work but with weird hands. Felt like someone stole from his living room and he couldn't do a thing about it.
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logan52512d ago
A buddy of mine had a whole series of fantasy illustrations he'd been selling on a small site for years. One day someone sent him a link to a t-shirt with his exact dragon design on it, just with the colors shifted a little. He couldn't even get the listing taken down because the company claimed it was "transformed enough.
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