• @AtmaJnana
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    Good. Fuck everything about Facebook and their advertising empire. Let it burn.

    Hmm. On second thought, I’ll fire up A1111 and start making fakes to fuel the fire.

    • Cethin
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      296 months ago

      Good is shortsighted. It will be here too eventually. Fuck Facebook, but hopefully we don’t build a weapon that’ll hurt us all, though in fully aware we have and are.

        • Buelldozer
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          36 months ago

          Yep, Lemmy is littered with AI art just like everywhere else and if people notice they sure aren’t saying anything.

          • AGIMUS
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            36 months ago

            Yeah, but these are accompanying text posts to give a visual. Thats different from using AI to copy art of people and flood the social media feeds. That I have not seen here yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    346 months ago

    Who’s still using facebook? Oh. Morons. The people least capable of responding well to fake posts.

    • @[email protected]
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      336 months ago

      It’s the normie trap. We made the mistake of letting normies in on our Internet and now we try to contain them on Facebook because they have ruined the Internet.

      • andyburke
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        Too few people realize this is actually the source of all the world’s current problems. We never, ever should have let the normies on here.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          They were even worse before the internet, it’s hard to deal with but this isn’t even close to as bad as humanity has been.

          • @SoleInvictus
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            Why do you think they were worse before?

            It seems like the Internet has allowed them to band together to reinforce and validate each other’s stupidity. I think they’re far bolder than before but I’m willing to change my mind.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 months ago

              Well mostly it comes from my memories of going to the pub before internet adoption was wide spread, Idiots were always the majority but you couldn’t prove them wrong and it was difficult to find anyone that would dare express anything but the dumbest groupthink opinion. Like even as late as the start of the Iraq war the level of discourse was unimaginably dumb even compared to your average Facebook group today.

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          It’s kinda strange, the Eternal September was before my time and now we have whole generations of even tech-affine people who never heard of usenet. Which btw just like email pre-dates the internet.

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            Email predates WWW, it’s fuzzier to determine if email is older than packet routed internet because both standards evolved in parallel so you have to pick and choose what counts on each end. First use of @ or creation of SMTP? First network with 3+ organizations or creation of TCP?

            • @[email protected]
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              16 months ago

              I’d actually date it back to UUCP and BBSes exchanging batches of messages once a day or so. The days of routing by bang path.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      Ah yes, there’s always someone shocked to find that there are actual users of a site that has been growing continuously for 15 years and reports over 3 billion MAU.

      Your social circle is not the world.

  • @RememberTheApollo
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    336 months ago

    From post-truth to post-reality in just a few years. SMH.

  • @Sorgan71
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    246 months ago

    its not stolen, its AI generated.

    • BlueÆther
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      316 months ago

      it’s worse than that, the article talks about img2img using AI. so these click farms are ripping real images and using that as the img2img prompt

      • @Sorgan71
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        -226 months ago

        So? its not stealing.

        • BlueÆther
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          216 months ago

          They are taking an artist work and reproducing it - changed slightly. If you did that to a Disney work (AI or not) would they consider it copyright or fair use?

          • @rifugee
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            66 months ago

            Depends on what you are using it for.

            “The general fair use definition is that fair use is any use of a work that is not done in an effort to profit from the copyrighted work.”

            Source

            • Chetzemoka
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              86 months ago

              AI companies are most certainly making an effort to profit from the content they’re deriving from copyrighted works.

          • @[email protected]
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            Disney considering it one way or the other doesn’t mean anything, legally speaking. It’s not so much about “used a reference” – you can take a movie still-frame and make an oil painting of it and it’ll be your work. It’s about that how the spammers use AI doesn’t have sufficient artistic intent, sweat of the brow, whatever your local standard is, to actually give you copyright over its output, as such it’s as if you had simply photocopied the thing. It certainly is possible to use AI in a way that gives you copyright over its output, even with img2img, but those people ain’t doing it. It’s also possible to photocopy that still-frame in a way that gives you copyright, e.g. if you collage and otherwise transform it in an artistic manner.

            • @General_Effort
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              96 months ago

              you can take a movie still-frame and make an oil painting of it and it’ll be your work.

              Maybe but not usually. This is making a derivative work. Derivative have their own copyright, but permission of the original owner is required to make them. In US terms, it might be fair use, if the painter wants to, say, make an artistic statement about consumer culture. EG Mickey Mouse has shown up in South Park episodes for the purpose of satire. That’s fine.

              OTOH, if there’s nothing deeper behind the painting, then it’s just unlicensed merch. EG, Disney has come down on day care centers for using their IP.

              Whether the OP describes infringement is doubtful to me. No one owns the right to make pictures of EG people next to wooden dogs. On its face, there is no infringement.

              • @[email protected]
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                36 months ago

                Mickey Mouse and various other Disney stuff is trademarked which is a whole another can of worms.

              • @[email protected]
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                26 months ago

                OTOH, if there’s nothing deeper behind the painting, then it’s just unlicensed merch. EG, Disney has come down on day care centers for using their IP.

                I’m not sure if it affects your larger point, but I suspect the problem with day care centers is not that they’re copying a specific work, but that they’re using characters that Disney owns.

                • @General_Effort
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                  16 months ago

                  True, I chose a very bad example there and muddied the waters.

                  Normally, trademarks aren’t so bad, relatively speaking. As long as there’s no confusion about who is responsible for the product, and there’s no defamation, you should be able to use those pretty freely. When “trademark dilution” comes into play, it can get onerous, though.

            • @[email protected]
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              26 months ago

              Dual copyright is a thing, if your work is not sufficiently transformative (for example if you retain enough substantial original features that it’s clearly recognizable) then it can be infringing if the original even if your changes is under your copyright.

    • @Leap
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      86 months ago

      It’s not stolen, it’s ‘stolen’.

    • Chetzemoka
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      16 months ago

      AI trained on plagiarized art created by real humans who were not compensated for work that AI companies are now making money on.

      Aka stealing

      • BlueÆther
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        146 months ago

        it’s worse than that, the article talks about img2img using AI. so these click farms are ripping real images and using that as the img2img prompt

      • @Sorgan71
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        -266 months ago

        Its not plagarism. Its not stealing either. Its training. The only artists who complain about this dont care about making art and are only concerned about making money.

        • Chetzemoka
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          156 months ago

          The kool-aid is laced, kid. You should put it down.

          • @Sorgan71
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            -176 months ago

            Removed by mod

            • @SoleInvictus
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              76 months ago

              It’s always helpful when someone shows us their entire ass like this.

        • PLAVAT🧿S
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          When a robot replaces your job (or perhaps your friends or family) and you/they lose their way of earning money will your argument remain the same?

          If AI/robots could give us the utopia from sci-fi books it’d be grand and I’d be inclined to agree with you. But they aren’t, no one is getting early retirement because a robot replaced them in a factory and artists aren’t getting residuals from the derivatives these “trainings” are creating. It’s theft, outright, and the thieves are trying to make money off these originals.

  • @fffact
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    216 months ago

    Plot twist: comments are AI-generated too

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      What about the news article about the AI-generated comments about AI-generated images? Surely we can’t stop there.

    • @General_Effort
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      16 months ago

      That’s way overkill. Just Markov chain it.

  • @[email protected]
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    146 months ago

    I mean my mom has been fooled by this sort of thing on email chains for over a decade.

    A lot of people just want to believe this kind of stuff.

    • @ElectricCattleman
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      26 months ago

      Yeah, AI is a new twist here but the concept of misrepresenting images and stories for attention is ageless.

  • @SocialMediaRefugee
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    136 months ago

    Let’s just agree that everything is fake now. I’m not sure I’m real.

    • @Mrkawfee
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      56 months ago

      That is a funny joke fellow human.

  • The Pantser
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    126 months ago

    People are stupid. Pics or it didn’t happen is gonna have to be replaced.

  • @[email protected]
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    106 months ago

    Welcome to the future.

    Bots creating content for the enjoyment of other bots, while advertisers pay for it.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    Reality is dead.

    Or maybe it’s still alive somewhere, but nobody can find or identify it anymore.

  • @Sanctus
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    66 months ago

    Fake political candidates incoming

  • @[email protected]
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    -16 months ago

    Does the entire west coast of the US run on Facebook too? ‘Cuz that was a big unwelcome surprise when I moved to BC.