When you say, “However what you’re hypothesizing cannot exist, due to the nature of a diffusion model. The source that the images are generated from, all of that was stolen in 2021. It was illegally scraped.”, are you referring to Laion-5B?
And others yes. It really depends on where you look and who you ask. I think Laion was the beginning of the end but some people say it was Google in 2010 or so
When you say, “However what you’re hypothesizing cannot exist, due to the nature of a diffusion model. The source that the images are generated from, all of that was stolen in 2021. It was illegally scraped.”, are you referring to Laion-5B?
And others yes. It really depends on where you look and who you ask. I think Laion was the beginning of the end but some people say it was Google in 2010 or so
https://www.adweek.com/lostremote/google-set-to-open-image-recognition-technology-via-apis/
Some go even earlier. But I think wholesale theft started around 2020-2021 at scale. Arxiv below for reference.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08402
Also I really do apologize for my tone earlier. I’ve given all of the beneficial doubt I can really.