They call it a “transfer,” but really, it’s a trap. By uploading, you’re giving WeTransfer a worldwide, royalty-free license to use your work to train AI and more—with zero compensation. Data is YOUR currency, make them pay you!
Thought this song was fitting, lol 🎵 Every file you make, they’ll be watching you.
I may be using and working in AI now as an artist and filmmaker, but 100% am not on the side of people thinking data is theirs for whatever they want. There are plenty of new models and others coming to market that are ethically trained and worked with the artists to do it. AI is an inevitability but it doesn’t mean everything that exists in AI as a business has this theft of data mentality. I urge my fellow artists to do research and look into them. I work in AI to precisely keep an eye on this stuff and to support creatives building AI not on top of other artists work but in collaboration. Not all AI is bad, but the ones that are, we’re gonna tell you about them. 👌
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