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Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough.

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Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.

Text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are trained on vast amounts of data collected online—including images created by artists, without their consent. In response, artists developed the website Have I been trained, which allows any artist to check whether their art was used to train Stable Diffusion. It also allows artists to individually mark their images as "opted-out" of training data for generative AI. Stability AI said that it would honor opt-out requests made using this tool. Over 80 million artworks have been opted out in the last few months. But will this help…

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