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Posted on 09/07/24 09:33:45 AM |
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DavidMac
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How to find out if your work is being used to train AI.
It seems likely that AI could spell the end of meaningful copyright. AI 'trains' on various huge databases scraped from the internet. Initially when these were for research purposes there was no copyright infringement but now commercial use of AI is growing these open access databases are attracting concern. There have already been class actions to try and enforce protections. If you want to know if your own work is being used in this way (as much of mine is) you can go to a site called "Have I been trained?" and search for your own work by name or URL. It will show what images are being used and where they were sourced from. Be warned! It searches through billions of images and you will need a very large coffee and croissant (insert your own snack here) while it return pages and pages of results for anyone with the same name that you will need to trawl though to find your own work. If you do persist and find your own work it gives you the opportunity to opt out of being used for training purposes. Whether that is effective or meaningful is, of course, another question ........ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |