Is one of those things giving attribution? If I ask for a picture of Mount Fuji in the style of a woodblock print, can the AI tell me what its inspirations were?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

it can tell you its inspiration about as well as photoshop's content-aware fill, because it's sort of the same tech, just turned to 11. but it depends.

if a lot of the training data is tagged with the name of the artist, and you use the artist's name to get that style, and the output looks made by that artist, you would be fairly sure who to attribute. if not, you would have to do a mathematical analysis of the model. that's because it's not actually associating text with images, the text part is separate from the image part and they only communicate through a sort of coordinate system. one part sees text, the other sees shapes.

also, the size of the training dataset compared to the size of the finished model means that there is less than one bit stored per full image. the fact that some models can reproduce input images almost exactly is basically luck, because none of the original image is in there. it just pulls together everything it knows to build something that already exists.