Image-generating AI models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can — and do — replicate aspects of images from their training data, researchers show in a new study, raising concerns as these services enter wide commercial use.
Co-authored by scientists at the University of Maryland and New York University, the research identifies cases where image-generating models, including Stable Diffusion, “copy” from the public internet data — including copyrighted images — on which they were trained.
The study hasn’t been peer reviewed yet, and the co-authors submitted it to a conference whose rules forbid media interviews until the research has been accepted for publication. But one of the researchers, who asked not to be identified by name, shared high-level thoughts with TechCrunch via em...
