" AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery."
https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter
AI Open Letter — CAIR

 Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of...

@timnitGebru if only they’d gone and pulled thousands of papers off of JSTOR maybe the FBI would arrested …. Oh, wait, never mind they stole all that data too.

Guess it’s only individuals like Aaron Schwartz who were worthy of excessive prosecution, the billionaire brats club always gets a pass.

@timnitGebru one thing is certain, you are not going to stop it
@timnitGebru Wow, this is exactly what Jaron Lanier said years back about AI.