Images generated by AI models trained on massive datasets often can’t be traced to specific training images, MIT CSAIL researchers found. Removing individual images from the dataset didn’t change outputs, complicating copyright questions.
Yeah people don’t understand the math behind these things. They are statistical models, like demographics or climate models. They are interesting and potentially useful, but not necessarily useful for the things we are trying to and want to use them for. They can predict certain things and trends very reliably in a general, high-level sense, but they will get the details wrong if you try to use them outside of their area of applicability, just like if you try to use national climate models to determine what day your basement is going to flood, it may come up with a specific date, but just as obviously that’s not actually going to be correct in reality. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad model, it means you’re using it wrong.
And lots of AI bros and AI companies are using these things desperately wrong, and for very wrong reasons. They want to sell things to you. They want to control you and manipulate you. They don’t care if they’re using the model properly, they only care if it’s profitable for them to do it.
Yeah people don’t understand the math behind these things. They are statistical models, like demographics or climate models. They are interesting and potentially useful, but not necessarily useful for the things we are trying to and want to use them for. They can predict certain things and trends very reliably in a general, high-level sense, but they will get the details wrong if you try to use them outside of their area of applicability, just like if you try to use national climate models to determine what day your basement is going to flood, it may come up with a specific date, but just as obviously that’s not actually going to be correct in reality. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad model, it means you’re using it wrong.
And lots of AI bros and AI companies are using these things desperately wrong, and for very wrong reasons. They want to sell things to you. They want to control you and manipulate you. They don’t care if they’re using the model properly, they only care if it’s profitable for them to do it.