The tools that are currently used for the automatic generation of images based on the use of the artificial intelligence are gaining popularity, although some content creators seem to be unhappy.
Why? easy. Many photographers, for example, are seeing how their copyrighted images are used by these robots for the generation of others from that, which is clearly illegal and they intend to modify this for the future in which these tools will be used for advertising, for example.
“Have I Been Trained”, which is the name given to this curious website, has been created in response to these synthesis models that are used to train image generators using artificial intelligence (AI), such as the case of DALL- E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This website, created by a group of artists calling themselves Spawning, searches for the training data set at LAION-5B, a library of 5.85 billion images, which is used to power those tools. Is a technology fun to play, but it can help to take a look at the data that the AI is using as a base.
To create LAION-5B, the robots led by the researchers crawled millions of websites, including large image repositories like Getty, Flickr, and Pinterest, among others. Collected millions of copyrighted images without getting permission.
As you can see in the image above, users can search through text using keywords that can bring up their work, or they can directly upload a photo they have taken to see if it has been used.
Artificial intelligence yes, but improved for the future
This emerging technology is generating a great concern in the artistic sectornot only because of the idea that in the future they will not be necessary given the ease of creating content with these tools, but also because of the large-scale use of images without permissions.
Groups like Spawning consider that an artist must consent for your work to be fed into an AI.
“Spawning is creating tools for artists to own their training data, allowing them to opt in or out of training large AI models, set permissions on how their style and image is used, and offer their own models to the public.” public”they affirm.
A multitude of digital artists join this battle alerted to find more AI jobs than jobs done by themselves, if you enter their name. Artificial intelligence and above all, this new technology is raising a series of quite worrying ethical and legal dilemmas.