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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958 · Film · 69 min
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
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I don't really think AI training is "stealing", despite how much people seem to keep repeating that. You can't own a "style", and you don't get rights to everything inspired by your work, and you shouldn't be because that would be horrible. A lot of AI images that I've generated, as far as I can tell, are pretty much completely unique in the sense that, yes, they were trained on copyrighted data, they don't really look like anything that has ever existed before.
There's been plenty of cases where a big company is inspired by a small company's work, largely redid it, and no one cared, well before AI was a thing. "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" was basically copied by Alien twenty years later, and the latter is considered a masterpiece of cinema, and while most film-geeks know this about Alien, they still consider it unique enough in its own rights to be a great movie. I feel like, in many cases, the stuff generated by Stable Diffusion is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I guess it's a minority opinion, since a large part of the most recent writers strike that everyone seemed to get behind was complaining about AI.
As a rule, I think articles like this are just kind of fear-mongering. Every new piece of tech has a risk of displacing workers, especially in the short term. This isn't new, it's the nature of progress: people really want stuff to be cheaper so we invent stuff to make things cheaper.
Will AI "replace" jobs? Sure, but so did ditch-digging machines, cars, airplanes, and computers themselves; people find other stuff to do.
To anyone who loves Alien, I highly recommend checking out "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958). Despite a cheesy name, it's a surprisingly really well made movie with decent acting, writing, and directing. It also has the same basic premise as Alien, and came out more than two decades before!
I'm not saying Alien "ripped it off", but it is fun to watch sort of a proto-Alien.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%21_The_Terror_from_Beyond_Space