[thot_experiment]

I'm more of an artist than a hacker, and

> mad about models being trained on their work without informed prior consent

This is the "your mind has been poisoned by a corporate view of intellectual property" take. The idea that copyright should extend this far is horrifying, it is another step toward stifling and controlling creative expression. The problem is capital being rewarded way more by IP law than labor, something that isn't going to be fixed by giving people more and broader ways to own things.|

You'll be surprised how recent the idea of owning ideas is.

[boppo1]

Well I should be more clear. I don't mean by informed consent "they put it in the TOS and it's software I have to use so I'm boned". I mean more like "I use Blender, Krita, and Procreate and none of them do that bullshit. As long as there's a notification on software that scans my work so I can avoid it, I'm happy. If I want to opt-in to contributing to a model at some point, that might be cool."

I guess I should worry a bit that important software without worthwhile alternatives might start to do this, but I don't think the blender foundation will as long as Ton is alive, and I bet the same for Krita. Procreate I'm a little less confident about, but only a little, as they know who their main userbase* is and they know how those people feel about AI.

*Arguably there are more people with Procreate that barely know how to draw than people who do. BUT part of Procreate's appeal is that it's software that 'the pros' prefer to use. If the talented artists start publicly dumping on Procreate, the people who can't draw will slowly but surely follow those artists to whatever their preferred software becomes.