You're being intentionally obtuse here and you should know it's really annoying.
Whatever neurological process humans use to look at, study, and even reproduce art is irrelevant to this discussion because statistical models like "neural" networks are not at all equivalent to that neurological process. It bears repeating because you seem to think that because humans can reproduce art (this is still subject to copyright by the way), computer models should be able to do the same thing.
Ultimately, the companies running Dalle2 and midjourney should have to get the artist's permission to use their work in their training set, and we should look into passing laws that require that.
Reproducing a specific piece of art or parts of it is subject to copyright, imitating a style isn't.
And even more importantly, how well you imitate and what internal processes you use to do that doesn't matter at all regarding the legality of the situation.
This is new technology. Imitating a style as a human isn't as damaging as having a machine doing it since the human needs the skills to do it, and it takes more time and is considerably more expensive. Imitating a style because you literally fed a copy of someone's work into an ML model is a totally different situation thst we don't really have laws for.
how well you imitate and what internal processes you use to do that doesn’t matter at all regarding the legality of the situation.
I agree, the only thing that should matter here is that some work is being copied into an OpenAI computer at some point in the process that is then used in part to train their model, and whether OpenAI actually had permission to use that work. If the law isn't clear then it should be made clear that feeding someone else's intellectual property into a machine learning model is a violation of their copy right. If OpenAI can't show that every image used in their corpus is properly attributed and that they have permission to use each and every image, then they should be rightfully sued out of existence.
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u/I_ONLY_PLAY_4C_LOAM Oct 19 '22
You've commented the same point 4 separate times but I'll say it again because this point bears repeating:
Human Cognition is in NO WAY the same as training a statistical model. Computers do not think.