It's pretty impressive that Stable Diffusion can compress over 200TB of already previously compressed images from LAION 5B down to a few gigabytes! And that it can search that database so quickly to copy and paste things from the right images! /s
There's a lot of good discussion to be had around the ethics of AI art, training on copyrighted materials, etc. But it is equivocally not just copy pasting from a database of images.
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It's pretty impressive that Stable Diffusion can compress over 200TB of already previously compressed images from LAION 5B down to a few gigabytes! And that it can search that database so quickly to copy and paste things from the right images! /s
There's a lot of good discussion to be had around the ethics of AI art, training on copyrighted materials, etc. But it is equivocally not just copy pasting from a database of images.
Yes, neural network compression is, indeed, very impressive.
Just because you put a lossy compression step in the middle doesn't mean it's not copy-paste anymore.