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Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)

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Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski's style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

What makes it even trickier is that taking AI generated art and using it however you want definitively isn’t copyright infringement because only works by humans can be protected by copyright.

[-] Pulse@dormi.zone 3 points 11 months ago

But that's not what they did, converting it into a set of instructions a computer can use to recreate it is just adding steps.

And, yes, that's what they've done else we wouldn't find pieces of others works mixed in.

Also, even if that was how it worked, it's still theft of someone's else's labor to feed your business.

If it wasn't, they would have asked for permission first.

[-] Pulse@dormi.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I think my initial reply to you was meant to go somewhere else but Connect keeps dropping me to the bottom of the thread instead of where the reply I'm trying to get to is.

I'm going to leave it (for consistency sake) but I don't think it makes much sense as a reply to your post.

Sorry about that!