Since the emergence of AI generators, there have been more and more instances of artists' work being stolen, manipulated without consent, and used to train AI. This would be an illegal act if done by a human, but becomes a gray area when it comes to AI – not in the sense of morality, but rather due to the lack of legislation for actively monitoring AI scraping.
If you use any of the social media platforms that are frequented by photographers to display their work, you may be inadvertently allowing those platforms to scrape your content for AI training. Or, unfortunately and more likely, your images could be used by independent AI programs that are scraping all images online illegally.
