jimkats

I just thought of an awful usage of AI on photos, street-level imagery specifically.

Imagine someone taking the images of Google's Street View, and use AI to alter them in a way to remove Google's watermark and edit other stuff on the image to avoid making it look like it's the same image, and then uploading those images as a genuine street-level imagery onto services like #mapillary or #panoramax , and eventually dirtying #Openstreetmap data with both fake and wannabe-license-avoidable stuff.

Jun 24 at 7:01amWeb
Show threadSimon Poole4d ago

@jimkats that probably wouldn't play out that way given that while the images may or may not be protected by copyright or related rights (though the "Lichtbidschutz" protections typically don't cover purely mechanically generated images afaik there is not a lot of case law around that specific aspect), it wouldn't stop extracting facts from the images to start with.

Google doesn't allow use of the images to improve competing services based on their ToS, that is contract law. ...

Show threadjimkats3d ago
@simon And that's where the "fake" part would come into play, because you wouldn't know that something you map from that image is actually fake. You would assume it's genuine, because it's an imagery. The "licence" is just one part of a plausible AI-driven data import manipulation.
Show threadMichael Brandtner4d ago
@jimkats Don't give them ideas.