In reply to Ben.

Hmm… the commercialization of the trained weights, which were trained using a wide array of images from various inline gallery sites… is kinda wild west right now?

As for current ownership from services, that depends on the tos/eula of that services and… of which ever country one lives and operates in.

Are the trained weights a derived work? If so, are catalogs and databases of artwork likewise considered derived works? What level of association of features, imagery, textual information… crosses the line from inspiration to derived work?

I have a custom SD setup at home. I am exploring imagery that while it might be in the style of xyz… isn’t a subject matter that xyz has touched or has any plans to touch. No imagery like it existed before. It is associative artwork surfaced from the impression of millions of images from the internet.

I think short of using the tech to copy someone’s style and claiming it as your own… or representing that work as being that of the original artists’…. There is a very large grey area that will have repercussions in other areas of copyright and internet usage. (Indices, databases, security hashes, etc.)