Is there a way to pay content creators whose work is used to train AI? Yes, but it’s not foolproof

  • Written by: Brendan Paul Murphy, Lecturer in Digital Media, CQUniversity Australia
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Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, or theft? Perhaps it comes down to the imitator.

Text-to-image artificial intelligence systems such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are trained on huge amounts of image data from the web. As a result, they often generate outputs that resemble real artists’ work and style.

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