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Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Data Replication in Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)
2 points by adrianhoward on Dec 20, 2022 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: They built tools that compare an image generator's output with its training pictures to spot direct copies. Testing on several image collections, they found the generators sometimes copy training pictures outright, including Stable Diffusion, with copying more common in smaller training sets.

Abstract · Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models

Cutting-edge diffusion models produce images with high quality and customizability, enabling them to be used for commercial art and graphic design purposes. But do diffusion models create unique works of art, or are they replicating content directly from their training sets? In this work, we study image retrieval frameworks that enable us to compare generated images with training samples and detect when content has been replicated. Applying our frameworks to diffusion models trained on multiple datasets including Oxford flowers, Celeb-A, ImageNet, and LAION, we discuss how factors such as training set size impact rates of content replication. We also identify cases where diffusion models, including the popular Stable Diffusion model, blatantly copy from their training data.

Gowthami Somepalli, Vasu Singla, Micah Goldblum, Jonas Geiping, Tom Goldstein
arXiv:2212.03860 · cs.LG, cs.CV, cs.CY · submitted Dec 7, 2022 · updated Dec 12, 2022
abstract · pdf · html · Updated draft with the following changes (1) Clarified the LAION Aesthetics versions everywhere (2) Correction on which LAION Aesthetics version SD - 1.4 is finetuned on and updated figure 12 based on this (3) A section on possible causes of replication

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