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[โ€“] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 hours ago

statistically morph them ship-of-Theseus style

That's not really an accurate description of how it works. It doesn't like have a big database of labelled photos that it looks up and grabs a few that sound similar to what it's being asked for and then sort of collage those together. It's basically seen a huge number of photos, been told what those photos are photos of, and from them devised a general model for what those things are, becoming more accurate as it sees more examples and then it gets handed a block of white noise and asked to show how that white noise looks like whatever it's prompted to make. In painting is a little different in that it takes an existing image instead of white noise

The training data isn't part of the model itself (a big hint here should be the existence of LLM or image generation models that are ~10GB in size but were trained on literal terabytes or more of training data - that kind of compression would be absolutely insane and would be used in everything everywhere if the training data were actually part of the model). Several of them are even openly available and can be pretty easily ran locally on consumer hardware.

...but yeah, somewhere some model saw a photo of you in training and changed a couple of weights somewhere in the network by some tiny fraction, ever so slightly adjusting it's notions of what people look like and what the other things in that image look like, That doesn't mean any image created by it henceforth is in any meaningful way a picture of you.

I would liken it to a kind of theft or even rape that we have no clear word for or legal concept of yet.

Like anyone who has ever seen a child or depiction of a child producing any sexually explicit illustration of any sort everafter, then? Because even human artists do not create ex nihilo, they start from a foundation of their cumulative experiences, which means anyone who has ever laid eyes on your child or a photo of your child is at some level incorporating some aspect of that experience however small into any artwork they create henceforth and should they ever draw anything explicit...