Summary of Not Every Image Is Worth a Thousand Words: Quantifying Originality in Stable Diffusion, by Adi Haviv et al.
Not Every Image is Worth a Thousand Words: Quantifying Originality in Stable Diffusion
by Adi Haviv, Shahar Sarfaty, Uri Hacohen, Niva Elkin-Koren, Roi Livni, Amit H Bermano
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research addresses the challenge of quantifying originality in text-to-image (T2I) generative diffusion models, specifically focusing on copyright originality. The study begins by evaluating T2I models’ ability to innovate and generalize through controlled experiments, revealing that stable diffusion models can effectively recreate unseen elements with sufficiently diverse training data. The researchers propose a method that leverages textual inversion to measure the originality of an image based on the number of tokens required for its reconstruction by the model. This approach is inspired by legal definitions of originality and aims to assess whether a model can produce original content without relying on specific prompts or having the training data of the model. The study demonstrates this method using both a pre-trained stable diffusion model and a synthetic dataset, showing a correlation between the number of tokens and image originality. This work contributes to the understanding of originality in generative models and has implications for copyright infringement cases. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research looks at how well computers can create new images from words, something called text-to-image (T2I) generation. The goal is to figure out if these computer-generated images are truly new or just copied from somewhere else. To do this, the researchers tested different computer models and found that one type of model, called a stable diffusion model, can actually create new things it hasn’t seen before. They then developed a way to measure how original an image is by counting how many words are needed for the computer to recreate it. The study used a special dataset and a pre-trained computer model to test this method, finding that the number of words required does seem to be related to how original the image is. This work helps us understand how computers can create new things and has important implications for things like copyright law. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model
