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> before the US election

Aren't these happening regularly ? We're always before a US election

But competitors did so what’s the point of this predilection or the debate around it

I am not sure I would say it was "pretty obvious", but it is certainly likely.

Regardless I don't see why sigmoid10 was downvoted.

Maybe. Maybe not.

The ex-CTO didn’t want to release GPT3 for fear of fake news articles, but OAI did anyway.

Safety doesn’t seem to be their biggest concern, unless they’re making inroads with politicians by fearmongering AI danger.

This sounds right to me.

They are already dealing with insane amount of GPU compute

I took a look at Rive a while ago. The thing that made it a no go was the lack of local file saving. There is a lot I really, really liked about it, but without local file saving it did not feel like a serious product to do serious work. I want to use it to make indie games. I want to build hundreds of animations, not the odd animation on a client’s website. For that I need control over my files, and I need the experience to feel more native and less web app.

It’s close but still has issues

If you use their product, per their tos, my understanding is they can train on their customer data at any time. In other words, if you use their product, they automatically have license to train on your art.

I think the only statements saying that they don't train on their customer data is from their CEO, but unless they encode it in their tos, that doesn't really matter.

Given that they own a big library of images, it's the path they prefer.

I mean, given their recent liscence kerfuffle it seems clear to me that Adobe really wanted to be able to train on customer data. They had to backpedal, since that generated a surprising amount of controversy. They hold an effective monopoly in certain fields, and their behavior shows they really don't always have customer interests at heart.

Even without customer data to train on, they do have a pretty large moat with their image library. And you are right, they are in a good position VS competitors who trained on data they don't have rights to. We'll have to see how things play out legally, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up that something like midjourney ends up in an untenable position. However, openAI has a huge amount of funds that could be redirected to fight a oegal/lobbying battle. While they aren't a direct Adobe competitor, their whole business revolves around using unliscenced data to train their models, so they have a pretty clear horse in this race.

AI becomes a lot more useful in a commercial setting when you can steer it towards a desired style which means training. Would imagine once they roll out the ability to drive it that way they'll include the licence to use whatever you feed into it for their own training too and many will capitulate.

Those are two big ifs though.

How are you defining steal?

Not quite everyone: https://procreate.com/ai

AI winter is coming and I wouldn't wanna be known as an 'AI' person then.