An AI copied millions of manga and anime images

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The founder of Midjourney , a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence program, has admitted that he scraped some 100 million images from the Internet, many of them without permission from official anime and manga creators.

 


Via Petapixel, Midjourney founder David Holz admitted in a resurfaced interview that the site has copied around 100 million images, revealing to Forbes how it was done. « It's just a big download from the Internet. We use published open datasets and train on them. And I would say that it is something that 100% of people do. We were not picky . He said they did not seek consent from living artists or works that were still protected by copyright, adding: " No. There's really no way to get a hundred million images and know where they come from ."

Holz's argument for why Midjourney did not seek consent stems from what he considers a lack of proper identification method of what art belongs to whom. « It would be great if the images had embedded metadata about the copyright owner or something. But that does not exist; there is no record . Regarding the opt-out, he adds: “ We are studying it. The challenge now is to find out what the rules are and how to find out if a person is really the artist of a specific work or just giving their name. "We have not found anyone who wants his name removed from the data set that we have been able to find ."

Although proving original ownership may be more difficult for smaller artists, the docket of artists used by Midjourney includes high-profile and easily verifiable creators such as Eiichiro Oda of “One Piece,” Masashi Kishimoto of “Naruto,” and thousands of other artists. . Despite this, Midjourney users can generate AI art based on their works. Recently, anime association NAFCA sat down with Magmix and ethical AI developers Anime Chain to discuss what could be done about the rise of AI in art creation. Anime Chain argued that AI was inevitable and that anime creators needed to take the lead before Big Tech monopolized the field.

Source: Forbes

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