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Besides the point that these are freely viewable images anyways, this is also clearly not people's real objection. If you were making a novel-writing ai, it would not placate anybody if you bought a single copy of each book before incorporating it into the model.

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> it would not placate anybody if you bought a single copy of each book before incorporating it into the model.

because by buying the book you are not buying the right to distribute derivative works of that book.

I prefer straightforward movie piracy than the "hidden behind a curtain of supposedly artistic value" one.

I agree. In theory, some may be placated if the person creating an SD artwork had to ultimately compensate the creators of those artworks that were used by SD in order to stich together the image, akin to sampling records in music.

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