A German stock photographer who asked to get his images removed from a dataset used to train AI image generators was not only met with a refusal from the dataset owner but also an invoice for $979 for filing an unjustified copyright claim.
The photographer, Robert Kneschke, found out in February that his photographs were being used to train AI through a site called Have I Been Trained? This website allowed him to search through LAION-5B, which is a dataset of over 5.8 billion images owned…
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