You’re never going to get rights over the training data your pictures that are freely available for anything to scan creates. By being on the internet your pictures basically have the right to be viewed by anyone or anything even an AI. You have never gotten to control who looks at your content after you post it.
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otter@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
So I assume they added any necessary stuff to the TOS to allow this.
My question is if there’s any legal mechanism to prevent this on other platforms? Pixelfed for example. Companies will likely federate and pull images regardless, but can we go after them when they’re caught?
Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
otter@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Well there’s a difference between “don’t look at my work without paying me, even if it’s posted publicly” and “don’t sell my work without paying me, even if it’s posted publicly”
Like I said, there’s nothing we can do about companies using all the data they can get their hands on for R&D. It IS possible to protect against the second case, where companies can’t sell an LLM product with copyrighted training data.
My question was about how that second case could be extended to stuff posted on the Fediverse, such as if an instance had a blanket “all rights belong to the user posting the content”.
These laws exist, if companies can use them then so can we
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 9 months ago
where companies can’t sell an LLM product with copyrighted training data.
If an artist learns their technique from copying other artists until they are competent enough to produce their own original works, should they be banned from selling their original work or services? After all, they used copyrighted training data to gain the skills needed to produce said work and services.
BURN@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LLMS and Generative AI do not learn like humans and regulating it the same would be disingenuous and completely off base.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I think in order to fight against these composite using our data for AI training we souks have to do something like watermarking our images explicitly stating that they are not for AI training. Or we create some type of counter measure that messes up the training.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Never read it but I assume it already was. Pretty much every platform has a clause that says something along the lines of “we own all the content you submit to our service”.
phx@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Actually it’s usually more “you own the content but by posting it grant is an irrevocable right for us and our partners to use it”
Basically allows them use without the responsibility for ownership of inappropriate content
supercritical@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exactly. Instagram doesn’t claim ownership to any of your content, but Instagram’s terms of use state that the user grants Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid, and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use their content. Additionally, they can make money off your content without ever paying you a cut. Honestly, it’s pretty boiler plate at this point. No one should expect anything else from corporations. It’s just business.