Open Discussion about "machine learning generated" Pictures on Derpibooru

To the Mods: I hope you keep this Topic here and not merge it with another Thread, where no one will ever see it again.

Art Theft

I hope you keep this Topic here

I’m not sure if this was already used in any Topic, but in a short Search I have just found Posts in General Discussion.

To the Mods: I hope you keep this Topic here and not merge it with another Thread, where no one will ever see it again.

Question here is, are AI Images, who actual flood the Page ok with the Rules?

So it should have at last a minimum of Quality to stay here.

I not know how an AI works

maybe use some Pictures it found and simply deform it.

After Rule 3 some of the Images, like 2921685, 2907643 or 2920218 are not fit “Do not upload images without a clear relation to MLP” (with a big point on “clear relation”) would not be allowed here, because they have no real MLP Content (Colors don’t count).

There are many AI Art who look good, but I think there should be some Rules for Quality & Content and against Art Theft and unreleated Pictures or the Website will be flooded with such Pictures in the Future.

Question is, if you take a Picture from someone on the DNP-List, like artist:fenixdust and made an AI Picture of lets say this and change the Pony into Twilight, like tha Artist has made it, would this still be DNP or ok?

it is possible Derpibooru need to remove all AI Art to prevent Copyright Problems.

@Princess_Fluttershy

Question is, if you take a Picture from someone on the DNP-List, like artist:fenixdust and made an AI Picture of lets say this and change the Pony into Twilight, like tha Artist has made it, would this still be DNP or ok?

If you see someone making derivative works from other artists’ copyrighted images, report it.

It doesn’t matter if the original artist is DNP or not, it doesn’t matter if the derivative work was made by a human or an AI.

And, yes, we’ve had instances where someone did something very much like that, to re-create an the artist’s Patreon or Paywalled images.

Just think of all the uncensored or de-watermarked images I assume anyone using this site has seen, made by someone trying to remove a censor bar, or dodge a paywall - or all the edits made purely to remove a watermark or an artist’s signature - whether someone is doing that with the assistance of AI or not, those are very much Rule #1.

it is possible Derpibooru need to remove all AI Art to prevent Copyright Problems.

No. If your incredibly odd understanding of copyright were true this site wouldn’t be here.

Humans been violating artist’s copyrights since before this site started. It isn’t a new problem and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel just because someone invented a new AI.

We’ve been dealing with copyright violations as long as I’ve been here. Just look at all the “Base Used” images from DA that are here. Every time you see someone from DA saying “based used” odds are they traced a copyrighted work, or traced someone else’s trace of a copyrighted work.

Every time an artist, or anyone else, reports a “Base Used” for Rule #1 - and provides enough information to validate that report - we contact the original artist and then respond based on their preferences.

The same is true with “machine generated” - if it credibly violated an artist’s copyright, report it. If you don’t provide enough information with the report to validate your claim, we’ll write you. We take Rule #1 very seriously - that’s why it is Rule #1.

Sometimes artists are ok with people “learning from their work”. Some take it as a compliment, some even encourage tracers and other kinds of derivative works. So just being reported, even being an outright trace or color edit, doesn’t mean that it will be taken down. The artist who owns the copyright can ask us to do whatever they want - it’s their copyright - and some artists say: “it is fine”. That’s their call.

But they don’t get to make that call if we don’t notice it or it doesn’t get reported. So report what you see that you believe are credible violations of an artist ’s copyright.

If you see an image, machine generated or not, that you believe violates an artist’s copyright, report it. Make sure you let us know which artist and which image it is derivative of in the text field.

Remember - some artists actively encourage others making derivative works. Some of them are really excited by what they see others do with them as the source.

So - If an image violates an artist’s copyright, regardless of whether its creation involved AI, report it for Rule #1 and we will deal with it just like we have every other time someone violated an artist’s copyright and it was reported.

I’m working on a couple such reports right now. It’s simple - just report the image, and indicate whose copyright is violated by it.

Linking things in a wall of text post is not a report.

Go to the image and report it. Whether you think it’s Rule #1 or #3, report it.

Seriously, I keep seeing people complaining about copyright violations and demanding that an entire new category of art be blanket banned because of it, then not reporting a single image.

So please report all the copyright violations that you claim to be aware of.

Your rule number 3 complaints are very much not something I’m worried about or personally interested in. Maybe someone else will talk with you about those. I just want to log on later this week and be able to claim and start working what I’m sure will be some really well documented Rule #1 reports you’re going to open as soon as you get the chance.

Remember, DNP doesn’t matter. Log the copyright violations you see and we will work them. Artists do not have to DNP to protect their copyright. Their rights are their rights.

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