Just out of curiosity - if the AI software relies on utilizing images scraped from the web, could one conceivably hit the developer with copyright infringement charges?
Or would this be fair use?
Or would this be fair use?
Now, things get complicated when you involve firms which, in the process of signing up a user, might force an agreement to sell/market the data in a non-exclusive manner to "trusted partners". Sooooo...is it illegal? Depends on on the lawyer and how long you can fund a lawsuit for, I suppose.
>Models in general are generally considered “transformative works” and the copyright owners of whatever data the model was trained on have no copyright on the model. (The fact that the datasets or inputs are copyrighted is irrelevant, as training on them is universally considered fair use and transformative, similar to artists or search engines; see the further reading.) The model is copyrighted to whomever created it.
What I'd be interested to know is if they have pictures of minors in their database, which could theoretically require some sort of release for them to collect/use (which I'm quite sure they wouldn't have).
https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/youtube-linkedin-and-ot...
* "Twitter sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company ordering it to stop mining the social media platform’s data and delete anything it had already collected."
* "YouTube, and Venmo sent their own cease-and-desist letters"
* "Here’s a LinkedIn spokesperson on Clearview AI: “We are sending a cease & desist letter to Clearview AI. The scraping of member information is not allowed under our terms of service and we take action to protect our members.”"
* "Facebook notably has not sent a formal cease-and-desist letter but claims to have sent other letters to Clearview to request more detail on its practices and then eventually “demanded” that it stop scraping user data. Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and notable surveillance enthusiast who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, invested $200,000 in Clearview’s first round of funding."