Now is the time for customers of photobucket to start deleting content from their account because this is where the terms and conditions will be abused because AI as it is now was not around when picture and video hosting sites were around therefore what could be done with pictures and videos by the host were limited. Now we are seeing tech companies that are building AI approaching other tech companies so they can have access to their databases so they can train their AI. The content of these hosting sites are the private property of the account holder and whilst the original terms and conditions may have something inside them that state the account holder upon uploading images or videos gives the host certain rights over the use of that content. I seriously doubt account holders envisioned everything in their account would be sieved up by an AI bot so it can learn.
In my opinion this is abuse by the hosts of their users content. Photobucket will make millions of $$$ from Apple for images and videos that do not belong to them and I have no doubt photobucket will not compensate any of it's users for allowing an AI bot to trawl through everything they own.
People need to get wise to this abuse. AI makers wanting to access other tech companies databases so the AI bot can learn, databases that contain the privately owned content of it's users. The host making millions from deals with AI bot makers for content they do not own whilst sticking two fingers up at account holders saying 'tough, go look at the T&C's, we can do whatever we want with your content'.
Look at the backlash from Apple users when Apple said they were going to implement a system where their images will get scanned. Privately owned pictures getting scanned!!!! Apple users was never going to allow it the result being Apple dropped the system (for now). That backlash just goes to show how owners of images and video's feel about companies intrusion into what they privately own. Therefore account holders of image and video host sites need to be very wary too because once an AI bot scans through whatever it is scanning, it can use what it has learnt to create things. How many photobucket users will see their images pop up in AI made images for advertisers and marketing campaigns.
If Apple succeeds in getting a deal, how many other AI bot makers will approach photobucket looking for a deal. Sites making millions upon millions of $$$ from content it does not own.
In my opinion this is abuse by the hosts of their users content. Photobucket will make millions of $$$ from Apple for images and videos that do not belong to them and I have no doubt photobucket will not compensate any of it's users for allowing an AI bot to trawl through everything they own.
People need to get wise to this abuse. AI makers wanting to access other tech companies databases so the AI bot can learn, databases that contain the privately owned content of it's users. The host making millions from deals with AI bot makers for content they do not own whilst sticking two fingers up at account holders saying 'tough, go look at the T&C's, we can do whatever we want with your content'.
Look at the backlash from Apple users when Apple said they were going to implement a system where their images will get scanned. Privately owned pictures getting scanned!!!! Apple users was never going to allow it the result being Apple dropped the system (for now). That backlash just goes to show how owners of images and video's feel about companies intrusion into what they privately own. Therefore account holders of image and video host sites need to be very wary too because once an AI bot scans through whatever it is scanning, it can use what it has learnt to create things. How many photobucket users will see their images pop up in AI made images for advertisers and marketing campaigns.
If Apple succeeds in getting a deal, how many other AI bot makers will approach photobucket looking for a deal. Sites making millions upon millions of $$$ from content it does not own.
