Gen Ai companies will use these terms to appear ethical. This is what they really mean. (P.A.S.E.E.L.F)
Publicly Available data
Scraped everything from the internet, including copyrighted works (we think this is the same as Public Domain, it is 100% not)
Artist Opt Out list
We scrape everybody else that doesn’t know how to opt out or agree with opting out
Synthetic Data
We launder data/pixels by using outputs from other GenAi image models
Ethical Data
We scrape using the methods mentioned above
Ethically sourced
We scraped everything from the internet
Licensed Data
We paid another GenAi company to give us data collected, using the methods above. (Don’t ask us if Artists, Musicians, Writers, Actors, Patent holders have been paid, we don’t even know who they are)
Fair Use
We are generating derivatives of everything we scraped from the internet