It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 hours ago

    By this logic, you can copy a copyrighted imege as long as you decrease the resolution, because the new image does not contain all the information in the original one.

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      12 hours ago

      More like reduce it to a handful of vectors that get merged with other vectors.

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      11 hours ago

      Am I allowed to take a copyrighted image, decrease its size to 1x1 pixels and publish it? What about 2x2?

      It’s very much not clear when a modification violates copyright because copyright is extremely vague to begin with.

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        5 hours ago

        Just because something is defined legally instead of technologically, that doesn’t make it vague. The modification violates copyright when the result is a derivative work; no more, no less.

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          1 hour ago

          What is a derivative work though? That’s again extremely vague and has been subject to countless lawsuits seeking to determine the bounds.

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            If your work depends on the original, such that it could not exist without it, it’s derivative.

            I can easily create a pixel of any arbitrary color, so it’s sufficiently transformative that it’s considered a separate work.

            The four fair use tests are pretty reliable in making a determination.

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      11 hours ago

      In the case of Stable Diffusion, they used 5 billion images to train a model 1.83 gigabytes in size. So if you reduce a copyrighted image to 3 bits (not bytes - bits), then yeah, I think you’re probably pretty safe.