Researchers Prove AI Art Generators Can Simply Copy Existing Images - Gizmodo

One of the main defenses used by those who are bullish on AI art generators is that although the models are trained on existing images, everything they create is new.

New research may put a damper on that argument, and could even become a major sticking point for multiple ongoing lawsuits regarding AI-generated content and copyright.

The same crew worked on an earlier study that identified a similar problem with AI language models, specifically GPT2, the precursor to OpenAI’s extraordinarily popular ChatGPT.

The team fed the caption into the Stable Diffusion prompt, and out came the same exact image, though slightly distorted with digital noise.

A smaller model like Stable Diffusion simply does not have the same amount of storage space to store most of that training data.

Florian Tramèr, a computer science professor at ETH Zurich who participated in the research, noted how many AI companies advise that users, both those in free and paid versions, are granted license to share or even monetize the AI-generated content.