The author of the model DW asked Zhou Hongyi to publicly apologize and compensate 1 yuan for 360's infringement and theft of the image. He has entrusted a lawyer to handle the matter.

#Abstract of this article: Model creator DW asked Zhou Hongyi to publicly apologize and compensate 1 yuan for 360's infringement and stealing of images. He has now entrusted a lawyer to handle the matter. It is not difficult to guess why 360 is unwilling to negotiate with the creator. The price of model licensing is definitely not an issue. What 360 cares about is probably a public apology. After all, this is equivalent to publicly saying that the product at the press conference was not trained by itself, but directly used by others (and unauthorized). View the full text: https://ourl.co/104496

360 held an AI conference on June 6 and Zhou Hongyi gave an introduction. In this conference, 360 used the pictures or models of the model creator @DynamicWang without authorization. The model trained by the creator DW is called AWPortrait, and the authorization method is that commercial use requires the purchase of an authorization.

Initially, the business manager of 360 did admit that the relevant images were used without authorization.However, he was unwilling to apologize publicly. He then denied the existence of stolen pictures and threw mud at the model creator, leading everyone to think that he was the one who created the model and asked for an exorbitant amount of money.

Why is it said to be throwing mud? The AWPortrait model license for small and medium-sized enterprises is 4,499 yuan, and 360 is obviously not a small and medium-sized enterprise; the business manager of 360 himself said that he wanted to purchase the model license for cooperation, and the commercial license price for large companies should be 44,990 yuan (Note: Blue Dot Network does not know the exact price).

However, from the beginning to the end, the model creator never asked 360 to purchase the commercial license of the AWPortrait model. As a result, the business manager of 360 turned the focus to the 10x licensing issue. Therefore, if you don’t understand the full details, it is easy to be misled by 360 and think that the creator is trying to trick 360.

However, 360 also has its own explanation, that is, the picture used by 360 in the press conference is not the same as the creator's picture. Although they are different, it can be seen that they are generated by the same model (or they are secondary creations based on the original pictures, which is still an infringement). This goes back to the issue of commercial use of the model, so it is either stealing the picture or unauthorized use of the AWPortrait model.

Now 360 seems to have stopped responding to copyright communication issues with creators, so @DW has commissioned a lawyer to handle the matter, and also demanded that Zhou Hongyi publicly apologize and pay RMB 1 in compensation.

Mr. Zhou Hongyi, at the AI ​​conference on June 6, your company used the pictures generated by my model to redraw and re-create without authorization, and published them in public, which seriously affected and violated my rights. I solemnly request you to publicly apologize for the above infringement and compensate for the compensation of RMB 1.

Since the compensation required is only 1 yuan, 360's so-called 10 times price issue is also untenable. Next, it depends on whether 360 will continue to respond to this matter.

At present, 360's behavior is somewhat confusing. For 360, whether it is 4,499 yuan or 44,990 yuan should not be a problem. What 360 really cares about should be a public apology. This is equivalent to publicly saying that the products at the press conference were not trained by themselves, but directly used from others (and unauthorized use). This should be unacceptable to 360, so 360's responses before and after are so contradictory.

This situation is actually similar to some commercial software that uses open source software but is unwilling to mark the source according to the open source license. Whether it is using open source software or third-party models, it is not a big deal. So what is the problem? It is probably a matter of saving face.

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