🚩 Report: Copyright infringement

#22
by Vysersivoko - opened

Hello, I would like to inform you on my behalf, that my data are part of this set. Any training on this is therefore strictly illegal by the EU law which can be reforced internationally, since I strictly prohibited my copyrighted work to be trained on explicitly as well as the app itself that was scraped had these measures explicitly written as well. If this is not taken down, there will be legal measures taken. No matter the morality, the argument that this is completely legal is straight up false one.

You may not like it, but how would you prove it?

Dear, Screwoffyouretard,

what I like or don't like doesn't matter, let's keep this conversation rational. This wasn't opening a discussion to a hypothetical scenario, but it was a friendly factual reminder about the situation. Based on local laws, scraping the urls from the website and posting it on a page that is explicitly built for helping to train gen AI with uploaded content is a direct step towards criminal activity that could be potentially investigated itself. Scraping on it's own in this particular case is a grey area as well and could be seen as illegal, but there's a discussion elsewhere about that ongoing with the original provider right now. This of course varries from scenario to scenario and I believe this page can provide information on who downloaded what files and how many, so we could predict things as well.

As for the AI training, users of this site usually don't produce good enough AI models to be hard to crack or significant. In reality, "I" wouldn't be the one to do the investigations since it's not my job, but it would depend on a case, as every case is unique, so I can't clearly answer your question since it's too broad, sorry. However that is not a point. Based on guidelines of Hugging Face, we all should keep things friendly and with consent and there's a "copyright infringement" button to report for a reason.

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