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.
Even if you limit your algorithm to only CC or other open licenses, the terms of most of those licenses still stipulate that the rights-holder be credited in a particular way when the image is displayed. That wasn't done here.
"Hey Everyone! I made an App to recognize Lady Gaga songs. Here are the songs we used to train the app, which I am releasing under a Creative Commons license, please credit me when you share them"
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