A spokesperson for Stability.AI told MIT Technology Review: “We are listening to the artists and the community, and working with collaborators to improve the dataset. This involves allowing people to opt out of the model and also opt in when they are not already included.”
But Karla Ortiz, an artist and board member of the Conceptual Arts Association, an advocacy organization for artists working in the entertainment sector, says she doesn’t think Stability.AI went far enough.
The fact that artists had to opt out meant that “every artist in the world was automatically opted in and our choice was taken away,” she said.
“The only thing that Stability.AI can do is algorithmic decay, where they completely destroy our database and they completely destroy all the models that have all our data. in there,” she said.
Concept Art Association is Advanced $270,000 to hire a full-time lobbyist in Washington, DC, hoping to bring about changes to US copyright, data privacy, and labor laws to ensure that intellectual property The artist’s intellectual property and work are protected. The group wants to update intellectual property and data privacy laws to address new AI technologies, require AI companies to adhere to a strict code of ethics, and work with labor unions and unions. industry groups related to creative work.
