Hackers Threaten To Submit Artists' Data To AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up (404media.co)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1936245/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/
> Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. "We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data," the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. "If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets."
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> LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site's owner paid a $50,000 ransom. "Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero," the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site's owners several days to cough up the cash. "If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws."
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So, make AI companies accessories to crime? (Score:3)
> Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets
I'm not sure making AI companies accessories to a crime is the bullet-proof win they think it is.
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The AI companies are obviously not accessories nor involved in the extortion. I believe their threat amounts to Packaging up the data and posting it to tor websites. It so happens to be known that specific AI companies such as Meta have been specifically downloading pirated media from such sites in order to train on it cost-efficiently: that is obtaining pirated copies of books so they don't have to pay for the book and pay the costs to obtain the books and possibly the costs to have them scanne
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Receiving stolen goods is a crime.,
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No, it won't, not if AI belongs to big tech. Artists&Clients made a mistake by using Facebook partly or generally for their business, allowing themselves to be openly exploited and extorted. Look up whatever search engine, Artists&Clients is at number two linked to Facebook, that sums it up.
Information wants to be free (Score:2)
The world turned just fine before IP laws protected revenue streams as an act of coerced taxpayer charity.
Birds of a feather flock together (Score:2)
Good to see the ransomware thieves and the AI intellectual property thieves in partnership for the common — good?