Re:Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
by educaysean on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:43PM
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One thing that sticks out to me is how so much of the the images in the collection have really terrible labels. I uncovered a large collection of pieces by an illustrator who was unsearchable by name, only via image upload. The reason they were unsearchable: the majority of this particular artist's images had labels that were all in the format of:
Re:Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
by simandl on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:33PM
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I'm not 100% on this, but I think a big portion of the captions for the images come from the alt-text, and are probably auto-generated by the sites they were scraped from.
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