“There’s really no method to know where the 100 million images got here from. There is no registry. There is no method to find a photograph on the web after which robotically track the owner and do anything to authenticate it.”

David Holtz, founding father of Midjourney. In an interview with Forbes, he was asked if he had sought artist consent or copyrighted images for inclusion within the training data set.

Reporter Jeong Byeong-il jbi@aitimes.com