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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by astrange on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:12AM (#33998982)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

A latent space that contains every image contains every copyrighted image. But the concept of sRGB is not copyrighted by Disney just yet.

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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by Taywee on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:23AM (#33999131)
Sure, but this isn't philosophy. An AI model that contains every image is a copyright derivative of all those images and so is the output generated from it. It's not an abstract concept or a human brain. It's a pile of real binary data generated from real input.
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Re:Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists? by astrange on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:38AM (#33999299)
StableDiffusion is 4GB which is approximately two bytes per training image. That's not very derivative, it's actual generalization.

"Mickey" does work as a prompt, but if they took that word out of the text encoder he'd still be there in the latent space, and it's not hard to find a way to construct him out of a few circles and a pair of red shorts.

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