According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable Diffusion developers from its services, a move supposedly disclosed internally within the company on Wednesday.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
AI generated images are not, and should not be considered copyright able, and they don’t own the right to the image they generated, as I understand it.
Otherwise, Midjourney are certainly very welcome to start paying royalties to certain popular celebrities whose images they are profiting off of. You can’t have it both ways.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Lol, after both steal every image on the internet.
No wonder the images look similar.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Have you seen those images of a bunch of people overlaid on each other so that shared features become clear and outliers become fuzzy. The result is an average human but it doesn’t actually look like anyone in particular because it’s a human with no striving feature or bold choice. Thats why AI look the same, they all have the same dull parts of real art but none of the interesting bits.
hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Thats such a good point i hadnt thought about before. Training data helps the ai know what is most common, so its products tend to be tropy, predictable and a bit bland (which is great for some things). They are often lacking that ooomph that makes great works truely unique and fascinating.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Only if your prompts are boring and dull. The more details I add to my prompts, the more unique of a look I can achieve.