Is training with user-generated content a way to launder copyrighted images? That is, if I upload an image of Ironman or whatever to my Facebook or Instagram page as a public post and Meta trains their model on that data, is there wording in my user agreement that says that I declare that I own the content, which then gives Meta plausible deniability when it comes to training with copyrighted material?<p>(apologies for the run-on sentence - it is early still)
Before anyone tries it out from the EU, be warned that it will push to make a Meta account and merge any Facebook/ Instagram profiles together and once you’ve finally bitten that bullet, it will tell you that it isn’t available in your region.
Link to tool: <a href="https://imagine.meta.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://imagine.meta.com/</a><p>One of many AI updates from Meta yesterday: <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/meta-ai-updates/#:~:text=Experience%20Imagine%20With%20Meta%20AI" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/meta-ai-updates/#:~:text=E...</a>
1.1B is tiny.<p>Given that FB & IG combined have ~0.5B photos uploaded <i>daily</i>, this effectively translates to training data from just a few days of user generated content.<p><a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/facebook-statistics/#:~:text=Users%20generate%204%20million%20likes,350%20million%20photos%20per%20day" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/facebook-statistics/#:~:text...</a>.<p><a href="https://www.zippia.com/advice/instagram-statistics/#:~:text=considerable%20400%25%20increase.-,At%20least%2095%20million%20photos%20and%20videos%20are%20posted%20on,day's%20worth%20of%20Instagram%20content" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.zippia.com/advice/instagram-statistics/#:~:text=...</a>.
If you ask it to generate an image of Taylor Swift, it refuses. But if you ask it to generate an image of a popular celebrity singer performing the song "Blank Space", it generates an image that looks exactly like Taylor Swift some fraction of the time.
Because it’s trained on “real” people, will it be easier to generate ugly people? I have a hard time convincing DALL-E to give me ugly DnD character portraits.
“Not available in your location<p>Imagine with Meta Al isn't available in your location yet. You can learn more about Al at Meta in the meantime and try again soon.”<p>I wonder why it's region-locked?
Doesn't do "hard prompts" better than other systems I've tried. Looks pretty similar to them too.<p>eg: "horse riding an astronaut", "upside-down mini cooper", "kanji alphabet soup".
> It can handle complex prompts better than Stable Diffusion XL, but perhaps not as well as DALL-E 3<p>This is a interesting statement, as Stable Diffusion XL implementations vary from "worse than SD 1.5" to "Competitive with DALL-E 3."
Interesting. Unlike some other popular image generation training, is there a <i>chance</i> that Meta <i>technically</i> got copyright permission for many/most of the images that were posted to its properties?<p>I'm thinking: When the user who uploaded the image was also the copyright holder, that might've been covered by an agreement that technically permitted this use by Meta.<p>(Copyright isn't the only legal issue, though. For example, a person in a photo that someone else uploaded doesn't necessarily lose right to their likeness being used for every purpose to which a generative AI service might be put.)
Meta is asking me to log in with my facebook account. Then after authenticating with my FB account meta says I don't have a meta account.<p>Is this all some sort of scam to get me to click accept on whatever godforsaken ToS comes with a meta account? If the FB account is good enough to freakin AUTHENTICATE me then just use that ffs.
I'm not sure if they cut me off for generating too many images or because of the content of my images. Everything is now giving the response "This image can't be generated. Please try something else."<p>This only started after I put in the prompt manbearpig did 9/11. It was ok with some really weird stuff though
Really struggles with fingers, probably worse than any AI image generator I've seen so far. Maybe there aren't a lot of finger-showing images on IG and FB!
to me these innovations seem akin to Concept Cars in the Motor industry; there's some utility, until some executive takes it center-stage, and pisses-off most of the core users.<p>the biggest value in these networks is real User-generated content, you can't beat billions of real users capturing real content and sharing habitually.<p>even if wording in the Terms permit certain research/usage, you've got market and political climates to consider.
Canada. It asked me to create Meta account only to tell me that it is "not available in your region".<p>Fuck you Meta and fuck you Zukerberg.