A spokesperson for Stability.AI told MIT Technology Review: “We are listening to artists and the community and working with collaborators to improve the dataset. This involves allowing people to opt out of the model and There is also an opt-in option when included.”
But Karla Ortiz, an artist and board member of the Society for Conceptual Art, said she doesn’t think Stability.AI has gone far enough.
The fact that artists have to opt out means that “every artist in the world is automatically opted in, and our choice is taken away,” she said.
“The only thing Stability.AI can do is algorithmically illicit money, and they’ll completely destroy their database and completely destroy all models that contain all of our data,” she said.
Concept Art Association is improve $270,000 to hire a full-time lobbyist in Washington, D.C., hoping to change U.S. copyright, data privacy and labor laws to ensure artists’ intellectual property and work is protected. The group wants to update laws on intellectual property and data privacy to deal with new AI technologies, require AI companies to adhere to strict ethical guidelines, and work with unions and industry groups dealing with creative work.
