Alex WildPretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.
Using copyrighted images to train algorithms is a kind of grey area, and I can see some decent arguments in favor of either.
But you can't act as someone else's agent and distribute their work without permission.
Franz@alexwild I actually think that images shouldn't be copyrighted on the Internet, much like software patents are a huge scam
Dennas Davis@nero @alexwild that would be ok, if everyone had guaranteed income. Copyright law doesn’t commodify expression, although corps pretend it does. It exists to allow creators to make a living - in order to make sure creators can create. This benefits society as a whole.
But since we don’t have universal income, or a real system of automatic compensation, your view is akin to asking everyone to sometimes work for free without warning.
But since we don’t have universal income, or a real system of automatic compensation, your view is akin to asking everyone to sometimes work for free without warning.