[residualmind]

A bulldozer destroys the park and other people's ability to enjoy it -- active, destructive. Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest -- passive, non-destructive

Mind you, this is not talking about the usage rights of images generated from such a model, that's a completely different story and a legal one.

[6P58r3MXJSLi]

> A bulldozer destroys the park and other people's ability to enjoy it

hear hear...

> Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest

copyright holders, I mean individual authors, people who actually produced the content being used, disagree.

They say AI is like a bulldozer destroying the park to them.

Which technically is true, it's a machine that someone (some interested party maybe?) is trying to disguise as a human, doing human stuff.

But it's not.

> passive, non-destructive

Passive, non-destructive, in this context means

- passive: people send the images to you, you don't go looking for them

- non-destructive: people authorized you, otherwise it's destructive of their rights.