Comment by noduerme

4 years ago

I'm not convinced that it's not actually accessing the (real) internet. How would it "know" the latest version of Python? Or that 212.58.244.22 is a BBC IP address, unless it were at least capable of doing live searches?

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isp  4 years ago

I'm convinced that it's not accessing the real Internet. All of this information would be in its training data.

  • noduerme  4 years ago

    Do we have any idea how big of a file the model actually is? I assumed it worked like the txt2img models where precise data is not hardcoded or stored literally anywhere for reference. A model that could accurately render all the WHOIS data in the world, since addresses are often arbitrary, would by itself be almost as large as the WHOIS database of 400+ million domains. There's not that much about WHOIS data that can be compressed into a neural network as a set of features and spit back out losslessly. So if it had just produced a realistic looking IP address at random, sure... but that is an actual BBC IP address.