I feel like this is one of those occasions where perfect is an enemy of the good. Yes there might be some, very very famous, artworks stored inside it. But unless you think StableAI has completely blown past the current hutter prize winner, there is no way this thing is storing many things. The things it might be storing are too public to really be that big of a deal. It will spit out a Vermeer, but your submission to Divient Art in 2007 is definitely protected.
> there is no way this thing is storing many things.
I didn't claim that it was storing all of the images.
It is, however, quite clearly storing at least some of the original training images. What that definition is, I don't know.
To go back to the original point of this thread:
> The thing is, people have wild misconceptions about what this technology does. Many clearly think it's a photocopier. As if StableDiffusion is hiding copies of all these works inside.
I don't think it's a wild misconception, or even an unreasonable concern to be worried that it could output some of it's training images. As an end-user of the technology, you have no idea.
