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@milanocortina26 @ViVaRai2Off @SanremoRai Tutorial dei passi di danza subito!😂 👌🏻🤍🤎

Tina e Milo che ascoltano il medley di #Tofu e #Mahmood 🕺 Spoiler: è un crescendo. #TinaMilo #Mascots2026 #Sanremo2024 @ViVaRai2Off @SanremoRai #Fiorello

@tonroosendaal Thank you Ton, you really must be proud of what you and your amazing team have created and keep creating every day. The community you've build around the software is just a reflection of your passion for creativity and the freedom of developing it! 🫂🧡💙

Thirty years ago, I used the holidays to rewrite our in-house 3d tool from scratch, based on specs and design I worked on for a year. On January 2nd 1994, the first version was running! I'm incredible proud, humbled and impressed of where it went. Happy 30th birthday :) #b3d

@jschunter @StephenPiment @ednewtonrex There's still room for an ethical one, by chance.

@Strudelbrain @StephenPiment @ednewtonrex I’m not sure one can spin a legal argument out of personal distaste.

I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’. First off, I want to say that there are lots of people at Stability who are deeply thoughtful about these issues. I’m proud that we were able to launch a state-of-the-art AI music generation product trained on licensed training data, sharing the revenue from the model with rights-holders. I’m grateful to my many colleagues who worked on this with me and who supported our team, and particularly to Emad for giving us the opportunity to build and ship it. I’m thankful for my time at Stability, and in many ways I think they take a more nuanced view on this topic than some of their competitors. But, despite this, I wasn’t able to change the prevailing opinion on fair use at the company. This was made clear when the US Copyright Office recently invited public comments on generative AI and copyright, and Stability was one of many AI companies to respond. Stability’s 23-page submission included this on its opening page: “We believe that Al development is an acceptable, transformative, and socially-beneficial use of existing content that is protected by fair use”. For those unfamiliar with ‘fair use’, this claims that training an AI model on copyrighted works doesn’t infringe the copyright in those works, so it can be done without permission, and without payment. This is a position that is fairly standard across many of the large generative AI companies, and other big tech companies building these models — it’s far from a view that is unique to Stability. But it’s a position I disagree with. I disagree because one of the factors affecting whether the act of copying is fair use, according to Congress, is “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work”. Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on. So I don’t see how using copyrighted works to train generative AI models of this nature can be considered fair use. But setting aside the fair use argument for a moment — since ‘fair use’ wasn’t designed with generative AI in mind — training generative AI models in this way is, to me, wrong. Companies worth billions of dollars are, without permission, training generative AI models on creators’ works, which are then being used to create new content that in many cases can compete with the original works. I don’t see how this can be acceptable in a society that has set up the economics of the creative arts such that creators rely on copyright. To be clear, I’m a supporter of generative AI. It will have many benefits — that’s why I’ve worked on it for 13 years. But I can only support generative AI that doesn’t exploit creators by training models — which may replace them — on their work without permission. I’m sure I’m not the only person inside these generative AI companies who doesn’t think the claim of ‘fair use’ is fair to creators. I hope others will speak up, either internally or in public, so that companies realise that exploiting creators can’t be the long-term solution in generative AI.

@welikeduel Nemmeno l'occhio di Mordor aveva così tanta perseveranza e dedizione verso un solo obiettivo!

👍 #propagandalive

@welikeduel Maledetta carne rossa! ✊

I fasti del novembre 1986 #propagandalive

@StephenPiment @ednewtonrex Furthermore, when I see something that I like I try to understand why and what is attracting me visually and I digest it before including it in my art. Generative AI looks to me like ordering at mcdrive and pretending to be a world class chef, sadly.

@ednewtonrex Ed, I respect you’re standing on the principles you believe are right. My opinion: Humans are fully allowed to read, listen to, and even memorize copyrighted works. They can only violate copyright by what they subsequently publish.

@StephenPiment @ednewtonrex There's a huge difference and I'm pretty surprised that we need to keep explaining it. A human can absorbe an insane amount of knowledge but it will be always filtered by its own life path, creative experience and vision. 1/2

Nightshade and DATA poison are coming. From the makers of GLAZE, learn how Nightshade completely alters the outputs from prompts in unpredictable ways. This is how WE, artists AND ethical scientists fight back. technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/108…

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.6 LTS! Introducing Simulation Nodes, a new UV packing engine, performance improvements in Cycles and mesh editing, and so much more! blender.org/download/relea… #b3d #DevFund

A cartoony rocket? Fun props? If you're interested in modeling stylised assets, find out how Beau tackled those tasks. 🧰 🔧 #b3d #OpenMovie #PetProjects #cgmodeling studio.blender.org/blog/modeling-…

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Emotional Hell

@scottbelsky This said, I agree with you that there's a lot of potential in terms of brainstorming/inspiration, it really depends how this tech will be used by the market! :)

one year ago this exploration would have taken either weeks of wood carving or a supreme skillset in texture and material design and 3D sculpting and rendering. but the ideas and creative direction/iteration are still a differentiator.

@scottbelsky The technology is interesting, I'm testing it as well, but the process is all upside down on this. One of the greatest teachings in creativity is to master your imagination before getting trapped by the tool you're using.

@ValeraBarashkov Stunning result and amazing work! Congrats 🧡💙

Wind is tricky to get right, I made it so it works automatically based on tree parameters. #b3d #geometrynodes #procedural

@scottbelsky It would be interesting to walk on this path together, creatives and Adobe, to make sure to create something ethical and respectful of the artists and their work. I'm already subscribed to the discord channel and for the beta, really hope you'll keep a connection with your users.

@Strudelbrain I hope we find a way to enable artists to opt in (if they want to) to monetize their styles - perhaps become the first ethical place to leverage an artist’s hard earned style in a prompt? just an idea

Our team is debuting Adobe Firefly today, a family of generative models firefly.adobe.com w/ a focus on novel use cases (generative text, vectors, etc), trained responsibly (not scraping), integrated deeply in our products - and incorporating content credentials.

@rufusd @Adobe I will 😉 Already subscribed to the channel and for the beta, thanks for getting back on this and being open to discuss about this!

@Strudelbrain @Adobe And this exactly what you are doing. In partnership with the community. Feel free to give feedback on the website or on our discord

It’s our mission to better help creatives of all kinds transform the way they imagine, create, and work. We are excited to introduce you to #AdobeFirefly and answer some top-of-mind questions. 🧵adobe.ly/firefly

@rufusd @Adobe The most important thing will be doing the right steps together, along with your users and creative community, without rushing decisions that could affect creatives and the platform's development. We're on the turning point of a technogical change that needs ethical choices.

@Strudelbrain @Adobe And this my friend, is too future looking and I cannot give you an answer to that. We will address it when there is a tool.

@AdobeCare thanks!

@Strudelbrain Future models will explore additional use cases and content types. We’ll share more information on this as we have it.

@rufusd @Adobe thanks for getting back on this so quickly, this sounds fair! Just one more question, what happens if I train a model, locally, with my material to speed up my workflow? The training data is still mine or will be stored and used by the system and other users?

@Strudelbrain @Adobe We will leverage the Content Authenticity Initiative provenance technology to enable creators to attach "Do Not Train" credentials associated with their content wherever it is used. Perhaps one day, you will want #AdobeFirefly to train on your content for your purposes.