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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">This Open Letter from the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting (CAIR) might be of interest.
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i class="x_x_ContentPasted0">“AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let
alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery.”</i></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Open Letter details at
</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Best wishes</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Dr Suchith Anand</span></p>
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