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21st century collage tool? While advocating for the illegalization of collages seems a bit of a stretch, I’m curious how true this is. The LAION B dataset is something like 100 TB and stable diffusion is about 10 GB so there is a factor of 10000 compression. That means a single pixel represents a 100x100 region. Perhaps someone more familiar with the topic could weigh in, but it would seem that the model would need to be representing content from more than just a single image at a to achieve that level of compression.

If so the correct analogy is not a collage but a musical scale and yes Beethoven took musical notes that Bach had used but it was not exactly a copy.

>>blulul+(OP)
Good analogy. I think that it indeed demonstrates that if the data set used to generate SD's images had been generated based on innate knowledge about painting, like Bach's created temperament with his knowledge of music, then SD would be free of copyright entanglement.

>>blulul+(OP)
When you look around, you don't actually see most of stuff that's right there... you've got a small area you can see, about the size of your outstretched thumb[1], the rest of the world you think you're seeing is a projection in your mind, built as your eye darts from object to object.

Thus, when we see things, we have already built a relationship map of the parts of an image, not actual pixels. This makes it possible to observe the world and interact with it in real time referencing the pieces and the concepts we label them with, otherwise we'd have to stop and very carefully look around every single time we wanted to take a step.

These networks effectively do the same thing, taking in parts of images and their relationships. It's not uncommon for me to see what is clearly a distorted copy of a Getty Images trademark when I run stable diffusion locally. There's an artist who always puts his daughter Nina's name in his work... the network just thinks its just another style, and I suspect that's same for the Getty thing.

One thing that is super cool is you can draw a horribly amateur sketch of something, and have Stable Diffusion turn it into something close to the starting drawing in outline, but far better in detail.

A sketch of a flower I did came out as Tulips, Roses and Poppy depending on the prompts used to process it, but it was generally in the same pose and scale.

[1] https://developer.tobii.com/xr/learn/eye-behavior/visual-ang...