Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250902200925/https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/
if the ai models are happy using stolen data, whos to say they havent already scraped the site themselves.
if your data is on the net, its already being swiped i think.
i wouldnt pay it if i were them. as if they arent gonna sell the data anyway for a lil extra cash, morals mean nothing to thieves.
Morals they don’t care about, but reputation is what their whole business is built around. It’s very rare that hacker groups release the content if their demands are met. At the same time, you might become a juicy target for other groups if you pay and are stupid enough to not secure your systems and educate your staff moving forward.