Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion

A spokesperson for Stability.AI told MIT Technology Review: "We are listening to artists and the community and working with collaborators to improve the dataset. This involves allowing people to opt out of the model and also to opt in when they are not already included." But Karla Ortiz, an artist and a board member of the Concept Art Association, an advocacy organization for artists working in entertainment, says she doesn't think Stability.AI is going far enough. The fact that artists have to opt out means "that every single artist in the world is automatically opted in and our choice is taken away," she says. "The only thing that Stability.AI can do is algorithmic disgorgement, where they completely destroy their database and they completely destroy all models that have all of our data in it," she says.