David Holz, founder of Midjourney, one of the most popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) content generators of the moment, admitted the unauthorized use of more than 100 million images, many of them from manga and anime.
This came out in an interview that was done with him some time ago, and that more than one company or individual could take advantage of to sue him and his company for his admission of the theft of third-party creations.
According to Holz, what they did with Midjourney ‘it’s just a big scratch on the internet’and added ‘we use published open datasets and train on them’. Afterwards, he highlighted ‘and I would say that’s something that 100% of people do. We were not picky’.
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They then revealed that they did not seek consent from living artists or copyrighted works, such as manga and anime, which they illegally used to train their software.
David Holz commented ‘No. There’s really no way to get a hundred million images and know where they come from.’.
The founder of Midjourney stated that he did not seek consent due to the lack of an appropriate method of identifying who owns the art used for his content generation application.
His pretext was ‘it would be cool if the images had embedded metadata about the copyright owner or something’.
He even stated ‘but that’s not a thing; there is no record’when it is known that there are images that do have an embedded record that reveals their origin and even owner.
Thus, among the images used for Midjourney are works by Eiichiro Oda, creator of one pieceas well as Masashi Kishimoto, from naruto.
The companies behind these series could be the first to file lawsuits against Midjourney and other companies in this field.
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