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As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate.<\/p>\n

Most of the generative AI tools used to create art and text today, including Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, were trained on publicly available images and text from the web. But in many cases, the artists, photographers and writers whose content was scraped for training haven\u2019t been given credit, compensation or a chance to opt out.<\/p>\n

The groups behind these AI tools argue that they\u2019re protected by fair use doctrine \u2014 at least in the U.S. But content creators don\u2019t necessarily agree, particularly where AI-generated content \u2014 or the AI tools themselves \u2014 are being monetized.<\/p>\n

In an effort to bring clarity, Kickstarter today announced that projects on its platform using AI tools to generate images, text or other outputs (e.g. music, speech or audio) will be required to disclose \u201crelevant details\u201d on their project pages going forward. These details must include information about how the project owner plans to use the AI content in their work as well as which components of their project will be wholly original and which elements will be created using AI tools.<\/p>\n

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In addition, Kickstarter is mandating that new projects involving the development of AI tech, tools and software detail info about the sources of training data the project owner intends to use. The project owner will have to indicate how sources handle processes around consent and credit, Kickstarter says, and implement their own \u201csafeguards\u201d like opt-out or opt-in mechanisms for content creators.<\/p>\n

An increasing number of AI vendors offer opt-out mechanisms, but Kickstarter\u2019s training data disclosure rule could prove to be contentious, despite efforts by the European Union and others to codify such practices into law. OpenAI, among others, has declined to reveal the exact source of its more recent systems\u2019 training data for competitive \u2014 and possibly legal liability \u2014 reasons.<\/p>\n

Kickstarter\u2019s new policy will go into effect on August 29. But the platform doesn\u2019t plan to retroactively enforce it for projects submitted prior to that date, Susannah Page-Katz, Kickstarter\u2019s director of trust and safety, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that any project that\u2019s funded through Kickstarter includes human creative input and properly credits and obtains permission for any artist\u2019s work that it references,\u201d Page-Katz wrote in a blog post shared with . \u201cThe policy requires creators to be transparent and specific about how they use AI in their projects because when we\u2019re all on the same page about what a project entails, it builds trust and sets the project up for success.\u201d<\/p>\n

To enforce the new policy, project submissions on Kickstarter will have to answer a new set of questions, including several that touch on whether their project uses AI tech to generate artwork and the like or if the project\u2019s primary focus is on developing generative AI tech. They\u2019ll also be asked whether they have consent from the owners of the works used to produce \u2014 or train, as the case may be \u2014 AI-generated portions of their project.<\/p>\n

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Once AI project creators submit their work, it\u2019ll go through Kickstarter\u2019s standard human moderation process. If it\u2019s accepted, any AI components will be labeled as such in a newly added \u201cUse of AI\u201d section on the project page, Page-Katz says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout our conversations with creators and backers, what our community wanted most was transparency,\u201d she added, noting that any use of AI that isn\u2019t disclosed properly during the submission process may result in the project\u2019s suspension. \u201cWe\u2019re happy to directly answer this call from our community by adding a section to the project page where backers can learn about a project\u2019s use of AI in the creator\u2019s own words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kickstarter first indicated that it was considering a change in policy around generative AI in December, when it said that it would reevaluate whether media owned or created by others in an algorithm\u2019s training data constituted copying or mimicking an artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Since then, the platform\u2019s moved in fits and starts toward a new policy.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of last year, Kickstarter banned Unstable Diffusion, a group attempting to fund a generative AI art project that doesn\u2019t include safety filters, letting users generate whatever artwork they please, including porn. Kickstarter justified the removal in part by implying that the project exploited particular communities and put people at risk of harm.<\/p>\n

More recently, Kickstarter approved, then removed, a project that used AI to plagiarize an original comic book \u2014 highlighting the challenges in moderating AI works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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