How AI image generators make a picture from your words
Does an AI image generator keep the pictures it learned from?
Can an AI image generator give back a picture from its training data, almost the same? Researchers tested this. First, they checked how much the model's file can hold. Then they tried many prompts and seeds.
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Before training, a program went through the web and listed pictures that came with a short text describing them. Stable Diffusion 1.5 trained on a collection of 2.3 billion such pairs, called its training data.
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Training ran its exercises on those pictures, round after round, and Miva, a researcher, wonders what stayed behind. If the model kept them, the right prompt could hand one back, almost as it was.
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