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Does that really follow, though? I mean, completely true, it is absolutely the case that there will be some inputs that cannot be losslessly compressed. But that hardly seems relevant here:

* being unable to recover many or most images does not imply that you will be unable to recover any at all. Being able to recover a nonzero proportion is still a problem even if the proportion is small.

* the existence of artifacts in the recovered images is not in itself sufficient to prevent legal claims, and yet ignoring them is plenty sufficient for increasing the proportion of inputs that can be considered recovered

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Most of the reaction you see from this are to the tune of "The AI people lied to us, the model DOES remember all of the images you train it on, here's proof in that you can get the images back!".

When in reality, you absolutely cannot store data to reproduce every image it's trained on because the model isn't big enough to hold even a fraction of what it's trained on.

Some. Some images back. I've not seen anyone claim anything like what you suggest. Do you have an example?

I mean, it literally says "some" right there in the title, and if you click through and actually read the paper you see it's a tiny proportion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ai-generated-art-cons...

Here is a real world example.

That article, much like the OP, is about someone that found a few specific images were recoverable. I see no claim there that all images are. Am I missing something?

Popular artists are being requested and the AI is turning out their work. Suffice that you are well known so that people request you and your style is distinctive then your work will likely turn up. That ups the odds quite a bit.

> Most of the reaction you see from this are to the tune of "The AI people lied to us, the model DOES remember all of the images you train it on, here's proof in that you can get the images back!".

You make a claim that seems trivially false. Cite some example comments to back it up.

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