Is it OK to train an AI on your images, without permission?

Website owners are once again at war with tools designed to scrape content from their sites.  An AI scraper called img2dataset is scouring the Internet for pictures that can be used to train image-generating AI tools.

These generators are increasingly popular text-to-image services, where you enter a suggestion (“A superhero in the ocean, in the style of Van Gogh”) and it produces a visual to match. Since the system's "understanding" of images is a direct result of what it was …

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