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Okay, but what's that supposed to achieve?

If you think you'll get paid, you probably won't because AI trains on very large datasets, and so pretty much any price per image would quickly get too expensive.

If you think it'll hamstring AI, I doubt it'll be for long. People will just end up curating their dataset better, and images that allow for it will continue to be created.

Also, per https://opensource.org/osd -- "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", so this likely won't get much uptake in open source circles either.

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>Okay, but what's that supposed to achieve?

Not being in the dataset maybe? There's many artists that hate that you can just write "in the style of" with their name.

So at least, if it does appear that it works with their name, they now either have been paid that amount, or they can sue for that amount of lost revenue. At least not everything would be lost.

I'm not a lawyer though, so really no idea whether this could even be possible as it's seems like currently it's fair use.

> Not being in the dataset maybe? There's many artists that hate that you can just write "in the style of" with their name.

Very few artists have an unique style. Some are very recognizable, yes, but plenty others do more or less the same sort of thing.

There's thousands of photographers out there that go for the "razor sharp, high contrast closeup that shows every pore" style (https://photoaspects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/black-an...) for instance.

With very limited exceptions you could go to a photographer and say "I want a photo that looks like this Vogue cover" and get it done.

> So at least, if it does appear that it works with their name, they now either have been paid that amount, or they can sue for that amount of lost revenue. At least not everything would be lost.

Don't be silly. If that logic worked, Microsoft could have sued Linus Torvalds for providing an OS for free. Or if you want to be a bit more exact, Sun Microsystems, IBM, or any other Unix vendor.

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