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What would happen if you made a lossy image compression format derived from tons of scraped, copyrighted images.

There’s no generative ability, but anytime you compress/decompress your image the model uses weights and biases learned from copyrighted works.

Is that a violation?




Nothing. and no:

Only distributing it to others is when copyright is an issue. Private translations/transformations are unenforceable. You can mark up a book you've bought as much as you want.

copyright makes no sense;




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