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by williamcotton 1246 days ago
> But all of this "it's just math"/"it's just data"/"it also creates non-copyrighted images" stuff doesn't cut it as far as the law is concerned.

What you mean is that you would prefer if Stable Diffusion was not considered fair-use by our legal system.

However, based on my more than cursory understanding of copyright law in the US, it seems more likely that the courts will find these tools fair-use than otherwise.

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> What you mean is that you would prefer if Stable Diffusion was not considered fair-use by our legal system.

I think you misunderstand me. Despite my feelings about Stable Diffusion and laws around copyright, I believe the law will find in favour of the artists, assuming they have the funds/will to see it through. The law unfortunately doesn't really care how I feel about it.

Granted, they're up against some fairly large corporations that have both time and money to stall for a while, so I don't know how far their lawsuit will go.