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Can I ask why you chose the CC-BY license? I see ratings on images, how do I rate an image?



How can a license be applied if things made by LLMs are inherently not able to be copyrighted?


The latter part of your sentence varies wildly by jurisdiction.

In the US at least, there have already been rulings considering it "fair use" (which is not a concept in almost any other country AFAIK)... I believe it is seen as basically doing an equivalent thing a human does i.e. drawing influence from other sources it has seen before to create something "new". The only legal difference in my mind is how different it actually is, and how obvious is it, from whatever the original influence(s) were, which also applies to humans.


If it's being served up to the U.S., files downloaded there are not copyrightable, hence not subject to restrictions imposed by a license which has its origin in copyright.


> I see ratings on images, how do I rate an image?

You don’t. Current SEO trend is to add fake rating metadata to your site because the Google algorithm likes it.


I felt I needed to add some kind of license, I also wanted to get attribution back to this website for traffic purposes. Dare I admit that I just asked ChatGPT what to use... I then got it to create a Python script to apply the license to the SVG image itself and add the website details. Its been a fascinating experience




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