californian here: i signed and i encourage y'all to do the same. you do not have to live in cali to sign, but if you do, it naturally holds more weight. this would be huge and allow for the accountability i and many others have been seeking.
sylleblossom-gaia
Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset.
Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
Zachary Berger
1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability.
GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.
