I've heard this take on machine learning models that they're benefiting from uncredited or uncompensated works, with the implication that this is bad and wouldn't be permitted if the model were replaced with, say, a human. that's obviously mistaken though.. the way almost all of these models work, we'd have to be similarly upset at humans who consume heaps of images, text, sounds, etc then produce new artifacts under the influence of those, but we're not. we celebrate the people who produce such things for their ingenuity, artistry, or analysis.
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