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The Audacity of Midjourney and its massive theft at scale
Midjourney founder David Holz has admitted that his company did not receive consent for the hundreds of millions of images used to train Midjourney.
he then added “ There isn’t really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they’re coming from.”
“It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that’s not a thing; there’s not a registry.
“There’s no way to find a picture on the internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.”
All of the above is a lie and David Holz knew that when he was saying it.
Most artists including myself embed our images with metadata. The implication that no one does shows a lack of respect for artists as a whole.
Whats not being said about Holz or Altman or anyone else is this.
They do not respect art and they think artists are not important, thus they think art is not important. If they thought otherwise they may have considered…
