99% of People Don’t Know If They Are In The AI Art Database
In this article, we’ll share with you how to search AI art dataset like LAION.
This is how to see whether you or your artwork has been used to train the latest AI art generators like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL·E.
Come to haveibeentrained.com
From here you can enter text or an image.
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Search for A Human Being
For example, you can search for a human being like Charlize Theron.
And you can see that there are thousands and thousands of images of this lady.
So she has definitely been used to train AI.
Put in your own name, perhaps myself Samon Vowles.
And you can see that I, the esteemed AI art critic.
Ah yes, here I am in my younger football-soccer playing days.
Quite a fine left-wing back I was you know mighty wood left foot.
So as you can see I have not been trained apparently inside of AI.
So you can put yourself inside of here and see whether you are inside of the AI training models.
There are over 5.6 billion images inside of this model that has been taken from across the web from places like stock websites, from social media sites like Pinterest.
Find Somebody’s Artwork or Your Own
So another thing you can do is come and find somebody’s artwork or your own artwork.
Save it as an image.
Come back to haveibeentrained.com and go to the camera icon.
And upload an image.
Select the image.
Wait for that to upload.
And it will then search across the database for similar images.
So I’m taking this one-line drawing from a one-line artist called Dane Khy.
And you can see that their artwork has been included in this database.
So how would they feel about this?
The Man Behind Stable Diffusion
So Emad Mostaque, the man behind Stable Diffusion has had a couple of interesting things about this.
Firstly, recent podcasts said whose responsibility is this to enforce whose work is allowed to be scraped and whose not.
So there he is saying there’s not necessarily his responsibility.
And he continues to say we are working on our artist fingerprint tools so you can opt-out because style isn’t copyrighted.
So he is saying by the letter of the law that style cannot be copyrighted.
Yet I think that it’s very clearly an ethical issue with copying someone’s style.
Especially let us say here is a little thought experiment for you.
If you are a musician in a band and you have a very distinctive voice and AI takes your voice and all of the markers of your music and creates a new album that is indiscernible from your own music and many people buy it and enjoy it as if it was you.
Is that ethically right?
Is there something true to our creative nature that is being extorted and exploited by these systems?
Because Emad goes on to say we’ve got audio and video coming.
So we’re going to be looking for more possibilities and more dysfunction coming inside the creative industries.
It’s certainly an exciting time to be alive.
Artificial Intelligent Bot
Another thought experiment that I’ve been thinking about a lot is what if an AI took your voice, your likeness, everything that you say, the way that you move and combined it into an Artificial Intelligent bot that looks like you speak as you, sounds like you, and everything about you.
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Is that going over a line?
I see that this AI advance is deeply challenging our notion of identity and individuality which is a paragon of western civilization.
So it may be interesting that Emad is mentioning that they are going to create tools to allow people to opt-out of these models.
But what happens when there have already been thousands of images created in the likeness of existing artists that are already re-entered inside of the models?
My feeling would be that it’s too late.
The cat is out the back there is no way to stop people from doing this from now on.
There’s no way to save the integrity of artistic styles and whether that is good or bad.
It remains to be seen.
I think it will certainly present advantages and disadvantages as any new tool does.
I, for one I’m very excited about the possibilities of it.
And I do not mind if some of my art is taken and used inside of these models because of the opportunities as a creative and an artist that I have found inside of this new work.
Final Thoughts
So a final note is that this site is creating a spawning system that helps artists opt out.
You can sign up on their webpage to either opt-in or opt out of tools in their program.
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I’m Samson Vowles, this is Delightful Design.
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