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AI Image Generators Could Be the Next Frontier of Photo Copyright Theft
Artificial intelligence-powered (AI) image generators have exploded in popularity and apps like DALL-E, Midjourney, and more recently Stable Diffusion are exciting and tantalizing technology enthusiasts. To train these systems, each AI tool is fed millions of images. DALL-E 2, for example, was trained on approximately 650 million image-text pairs that its creator, OpenAI, scraped from the internet. PetaPixel reached out to OpenAI and asked if it only used public domain and creative commons images, but the company did not respond to our requests as of publication. However, the company has previously declined to publicly disclose the details of the images used to train DALL E-2.