How do you train your upsampler? (Also: why are you seeking to provide an “antidote”?)
I think it's worthwhile for such discussion to happen in the open. If the tool can be defeated through simple means, it's better for everybody to know that, right?
Causing car crashes isn't hard (https://xkcd.com/1958/). That doesn't mean Car Crash™ International®'s decision-makers know how to do it: they probably don't even know what considerations go into traffic engineering, or how anyone can just buy road paint from that shop over there.
It's everybody's responsibility to keep Car Crash™ International® from existing; but failing that, it's everybody's responsibility to not tell them how to cause car crashes.
Let me rephrase: Would AI-powered upscaling/downscaling (not a simple deterministic mathematical scaling) not defeat this at a conceptual level?
To train a model on the data.
Also who said anything about selling?
> Also who said anything about selling?
All the corporations that are offering AI as a paid service?
Okay, extract the images from a Stable Diffusion checkpoint then. I'll wait.
It's not like lossy compression CAN'T be fair use or transformative. I'm sure you can imagine how that is possible given the many ways an image can be processed.
> All the corporations that are offering AI as a paid service?
Am I them?
I hope this is a special exception you've made, rather than your general approach towards interacting with your fellows.
Do I really have to explain this? You know I don't. Do better.
As for the card example it is on you to keep secrets secret. It is clearly a fault with how credit cards work and for things like that you should get insurance. Keep your card safe, or better yet, use cash. We can call it theft, doesn't matter to my point.
There is no "taking" or "grabbing" anything, I visited your website and was served a copy of the data because you made it do so. You wanted it to happen, for the public to see it, that was your goal. You expected it to happen. Do you disagree that me acquiring a copy was consensual? If so it is very different from the hypotheticals you're posing don't you think?
Once a copy is in my possession you would need to initiate violence to stop me from training a model on it which puts you on the wrong side of the moral line.