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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

That's a bald faced lie.

and it can produce copyrighted works.
E.g. I can ask it what a Mindflayer is and it gives a verbatim description from copyrighted material.

I can ask Dall-E "Angua Von Uberwald" and it gives a drawing of a blonde female werewolf. Oops, that's a copyrighted character.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I think what they mean is that ML models generally don't directly store their training data, but that they instead use it to form a compressed latent space. Some elements of the training data may be perfectly recoverable from the latent space, but most won't be. It's not very surprising as a result that you can get it to reproduce copyrighted material word for word.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can do that too. It doesn't mean I directly copied it from the source material. I can draw a crude picture of Mickey Mouse without having a reference in front of me. What's the difference there?

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