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Comment by scheeseman486

3 years ago

Hey you know what might not be AI generated post-2021? Almost everything run through Nightshade. So given it's defeated, which is pretty likely, artists have effectively tagged their own work for inclusion.

It is a great shame that we have come to a no-win situation for artists when VCs are virtually unable to lose.

  • I mean that's more or less status quo isn't it? Big business does what it wants, common people can get fucked if they don't like it. Same as it ever was.

    • That's exactly right. It is just the variety of new ways in which common people get fucked that is dispiriting, with seemingly nothing capable of moving in the opposite direction.

Modern generative image models are trained on curated data, not raw internet data. Sometimes the captions are regenerated to fit the image better. Only high quality images with high quality descriptions.

  • I wouldn't call what Stable Diffusion et al are trained on "high quality". You need only look through the likes of LAION to see the kind of captions and images they get trained on.

    It's not random but it's not particularly curated either. Most of the time, any curation is done afterwards.