Michael Hafftka releases all of his ~3800 paintings as Creative Commons, explicitly for use in training AI

18 points by unkz a day ago on tildes | 7 comments

[OP] unkz | a day ago

It's 50 years of his life's work. I'm pretty interested to see what people do with this, and if it has any value compared to what these models have already consumed. Also, if there are any interesting outcomes that might come from other CC license uses that aren't AI related.

AevumDecessus | a day ago

The dataset is released under an explicitly non-commercial license, so would only be valid for training research models or personal use. Will be interesting to see who uses this and how.

Deely | 8 hours ago

explicitly non-commercial license

Does it ever stopped any AI company from siphoning all the works?

ChingShih | 3 hours ago

Exactly. If someone had told me 25 years ago that Microsoft and their partners would be the biggest proponents of media piracy (even just books and images) and advocate against author's copyright in the courtroom, I'd have laughed my eye patch off.

Bullmaestro | 8 hours ago

Will be interesting to see if this poisons the AI well in any way; much like how their attempts to replicate Studio Ghibli artwork led to that yellow piss filter you see in a lot of generated images.

Captain_Wacky | 8 hours ago

How is the artist confident in knowing that AI haven't already been trained on his works?

PelagiusSeptim | 7 hours ago

Did he make that claim? I don't see how it matters for the purposes of this release