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OpenAI Pleads That It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them...
How would someone even go about finding out their specific creative work has been scraped and stolen by these AI companies? Back when I was active people would just steal my [commissioned] work outright and claim they were me. Now it's buried under a thousand layers of algorithmically-generated bullshit that itself is based on previously referenced work.
The "I made this" comic pops into my head on a weekly basis now.
I believe someone made a tool that can search their database. Either that, or the tool is their own. Either way, you can search the database.
Here is an example. But it's limited to flickr
https://exposing.ai/