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Benjamin BLM

@stealcase

May 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo

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While Sam Altman is fearmongering over godlike AI that could doom humanity or create utopia, the adults are talking in the other room.

Artists are asking for 3 simple things.
Permission. Credit. Compensation.

#CreateDontScrape
🧵1/5

The house Judiciary committee had their first hearing of many on Copyright and AI. Photography and music were represented (3 people), as well as 2 lobbyists for AI.

AI companies are using every argument they can to dodge these 3 pillars of copyright.
2/5
(reupload w/ sub)

There are a lot of highlights, like allusions the the pittance that Spotify pays out to artists, and this little dig that Ms. Ross implies that Sam Altman has more than enough money to compensate artists with how much money their company is worth.
3/5

There are hard questions, and each specific field like VFX, Music, Motion Capture, Animation, Illustration, photography, Voice, Acting, Writing will have different thoughts and considerations in use of AI (or not), but the professions are united:

LICENSE the TRAINING DATA.
4/5

@human_artistry

Thanks to @human_artistry, @dannavarro, Ashley Irwin and Jeff Sedlik for the united messaging.

Artists are professional, and can license their work on THEIR terms.

You can watch the judiciary meeting here, & please leave a comment in support of artists

Sorry for the spam: I rendered all these videos and painstakingly included subtitles in all of them, but when double checking after-the fact I discovered they were all missing the subtitles!

So frustrating! Had to delete and re-upload. Accessibility is important.

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Benjamin BLM

@stealcase

Mar 5

💸COMMERCIAL Machine Learning (AI) is rotten to the core in terms of respect for Copyright.

👁🤖I'm trying to track down the origins of datasets for things like motion tracking, object detection & general computer vision.

They almost ALWAYS lead to unlicensed Flickr images😠🧵

I can't find a Machine Learning product that properly licenses training data. If you know of any, send them to me! (This isn't about Image Generators, this is everything).

Every layer of dataset abstraction/annotation just further abstracts away the original rightsholders.
2/9🧵

I wouldn't mind if this stuff was done for Research to discover scope and requirements, then license data.
But people are developing huge products requiring mass compute to churn through human data we generated and selling it back to us. Consent should be a factor here.
3/9🧵

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