> The model now can reproduce a fraction or the whole of the copyrighted work with some low probability. Rote and probabilistic compression The VAE can be thou

> The model now can reproduce a fraction or the whole of the copyrighted work with some low probability. Rote and probabilistic compression The VAE can be thought of as a codec, but the denoising process can recover images that are far removed from anything that is in the training data. Nobody has ever created an impressionist painting of Winston Churchill riding a purple lizard through the gates of retrofuturist Constantinople, yet almost infinite variations of that image exist in the latent space. If anything, it can be thought of as an intricate form of collage, which we do give special treatment for copyright purposes.