Re:Can You Copyright Work Made by Artificial Intelligence?
by gwern on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:51PM
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> No, but if I spent a few hours looking through the training dataset I'd probably find another image that looked almost exactly like the one I'm looking at.
If you look at nearest-neighbor lookups in papers like BigGAN, you'll see that for all the apparent 'simple derivatives', you will see that it is actually quite difficult to find "another image that looked almost exactly like the one I'm looking at". Similar, certainly, recognizably the same character, absolutely (particularly well-represented ones like Touhou characters), but exactly? And if they were purely copying specific points, the interpolations would not work. (It would also be a lot easier to reverse a given image into the latent vector to edit it.)
If you look at nearest-neighbor lookups in papers like BigGAN, you'll see that for all the apparent 'simple derivatives', you will see that it is actually quite difficult to find "another image that looked almost exactly like the one I'm looking at". Similar, certainly, recognizably the same character, absolutely (particularly well-represented ones like Touhou characters), but exactly? And if they were purely copying specific points, the interpolations would not work. (It would also be a lot easier to reverse a given image into the latent vector to edit it.)