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You can use it, just don't use it for things that you publish without doing sufficient diligence to see if that work would be infringing on something else.

I intend to make an e-ink panel that displays woodcut style images generated by stable diffusion (get a list of a 30 or so different descriptions of scenes, and have them slowly get generated over the day and display a different one each hour).

So, here's the question - are any of those woodcut images derivative of some other work? Don't know - and it likely doesn't matter as it would be something hanging on a wall in a room.

On the other hand, if I was to collect them and publish them as a book, then I, as the human who is publishing them, would need to do sufficient diligence to see if any of them are derivative works. They might be - but I am the one publishing it then - not Stable Diffusion.

Likewise, if I was creating a collection of epic rap battles between historical figures as generated by GPT... then I should search to make sure that none of the phrases that are used in there are lifted directly from some other source. Again, it is me as the human with agency that is publishing it, not GPT.

If you were to go to Fiverr and request 100 pictures of woodcuttings or people to write epic rap battles between Julius Caesar and Ghengis Khan - would it matter if it was a human lifted the text or GPT? It is still upon you, the person publishing it to do the check.



You are right, but AI products are basically all currently being pitched as if that is unnecessary.




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