Just realized how many artists never consented to their work being in AI datasets.

Feels wrong that artists' work trains AI without their say.

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Mark Ward is right about the missing opt-out. If a website has to ask before tracking my clicks, why is it fine to take an artist's whole portfolio without asking? The law already makes a difference for one kind of digital use but ignores the other. Does that double standard mean we just accept it, or is it proof we could actually change it?

mark_ward1mo ago

Remember how you can opt-out of some data collection (like with cookies)? Artists don't even get that choice with AI datasets. It's like their work is just free material now.

logan_wells1mo ago

Wait but isn't that just how the internet has always worked? Idk, scraping stuff feels different than straight up stealing a painting to me. Maybe it's just me but it seems like a tech thing, not a personal attack.

oliverhayes1mo ago

Funny how the cookie opt-out is a legal thing but dataset scraping isn't. Do you think making it a similar legal issue would actually fix it, or is it just too different?