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I saw one very normal cat picture come up twice. Has anyone done an an analysis on the underlying data to see how unique these “do not exist” pictures really a

I saw one very normal cat picture come up twice. Has anyone done an an analysis on the underlying data to see how unique these “do not exist” pictures really are? Sometimes I wonder if these are little more than stiched together collages, and some times made up of very few source images.

flir 4y ago
https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat636.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat636.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/05/cat2788.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/05/cat2788.jpg As far as I can tell, identical fur patterns on the face, but different aged cats. Interesting.
- mikkergp 4y ago
  Yeah, maybe I’m the outlier but I don’t know if a lot of the AI stuff that’s coming out right now is doing what people think it’s doing. My impression is that the AI is learning the minute details that make up a cat and confabulating something completely new based on those details, not stitching together images of existing cats. If your three your old cut out a picture of one of your dogs on a picture of another of your dogs I don’t think you’d think that was analogous to what this AI is doing, but I think it’s basically that (maybe we a dozen or so pictures but seemingly much less than my gut would indicate). But more of a collage than an artist using a combination of their memory and imagination to draw something completely new.
  - flir 4y ago
    When I get into obscure areas, I definitely get the sense we're remixing a small library of basic components (I've been generating variations on "19th century hand painted wallpaper" with stable diffusion recently). In this niche I have less and less confidence I'm not just getting someone else's work that's been put through the intellectual equivalent of a bitcoin tumbler. But I don't really know enough about the this particular black box to have an informed opinion. Maybe I'd get broader results with one of the commercial players, but maybe that's only because they have a bigger library of basic components. Actually, you know what? We know it's just a remixer, because sometimes the shutterstock logo peeks through.

flir 4y ago

https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat636.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat636.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/05/cat2788.jpg https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/05/cat2788.jpg As far as I can tell, identical fur patterns on the face, but different aged cats. Interesting.

mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, maybe I’m the outlier but I don’t know if a lot of the AI stuff that’s coming out right now is doing what people think it’s doing. My impression is that the AI is learning the minute details that make up a cat and confabulating something completely new based on those details, not stitching together images of existing cats. If your three your old cut out a picture of one of your dogs on a picture of another of your dogs I don’t think you’d think that was analogous to what this AI is doing, but I think it’s basically that (maybe we a dozen or so pictures but seemingly much less than my gut would indicate). But more of a collage than an artist using a combination of their memory and imagination to draw something completely new.
- flir 4y ago
  When I get into obscure areas, I definitely get the sense we're remixing a small library of basic components (I've been generating variations on "19th century hand painted wallpaper" with stable diffusion recently). In this niche I have less and less confidence I'm not just getting someone else's work that's been put through the intellectual equivalent of a bitcoin tumbler. But I don't really know enough about the this particular black box to have an informed opinion. Maybe I'd get broader results with one of the commercial players, but maybe that's only because they have a bigger library of basic components. Actually, you know what? We know it's just a remixer, because sometimes the shutterstock logo peeks through.