In the world of anime and manga , various news about the misuse of images by artificial intelligence platforms has generated great debate. Recently, David Holz , founder of Midjourney , an AI platform based in San Francisco, admitted in an interview that his company extracted around 100 million images from the internet, many of them without proper permission from the official creators.
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According to information from the Petapixel website, Holz revealed in an interview with Forbes that the Midjourney tool uses open data sets available on the internet to train its algorithm.
“It’s just a big download from the internet. We use open datasets that are published and train on them. And I would say it's something that 100% of people do. We were not selective,” he explained.
Holz also stated that Midjourney did not seek the consent of living artists or works that are still protected by copyright. Holz argues that the lack of an adequate method of identifying image copyright is one of the main challenges.
“It would be great if images had embedded metadata about the copyright owner or something. But that doesn't exist; there isn’t a record,” she commented.
He also mentioned that Midjourney is studying a form of exclusion, but highlighted the difficulty in identifying whether a person is really the artist.
“We have not found anyone who wants their name removed from the dataset that we have been able to find,” he added.
Even though it is difficult to prove, Midjourney uses works by well-known artists such as Eiichiro Oda, creator of “One Piece”, and Masashi Kishimoto, among others. Users of the platform can generate AI art based on the works of these artists, which has generated a wave of controversy.
What did the anime association NAFCA say?
Recently, anime association NAFCA met with Magmix and ethical AI developers Anime Chain. Anime Chain argues that artificial intelligence is inevitable and that creators must lead before big tech companies monopolize the field.
This situation raises important questions about artists' rights and the ethical use of artificial intelligence in creating art. Finally, the need to find a balance that protects the rights of original creators is evident.
Source: Forbes
