Midjourney CEO's AI art theft?

Midjourney, a San Francisco-based startup, uses AI to create visual imagery from text prompts. Its CEO, David Holz, said that the company's mission is to "expand the imaginative powers of the human species" and to give ordinary people tools to make beautiful pictures just by describing them. However, concerns have been raised about the implications for professional artists and commercial art. Midjourney's dataset was built by scraping the internet and it did not seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright. In a recent Forbes interview, Holz admitted to stealing artists' work for the dataset. You can read the full story here: https://wokescreen.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-ai-art-what-it-means

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