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.
cheetah_spottycat@alexwild IANAL but I think as long as they only re-distribute it as a thumbnail (technically a citation) in the paper it's legally covered by the "research and scholarship" exceptions to copyright.
However, when it comes to the use as "training data" in commercial settings, I think we're in completely uncharted waters.
@cheetah_spottycat A citation? To what? The only way a viewer is going to discover the source image is to reverse-image search the thumbnail and hope for the best.