There is a short story called The Library of Babel about a near-infinite library that contains every possible permutation of a book with 1,312,000 characters. It is not hard to recreate that library in code. You can explore it if you want.
Contained within that library is a copy of every book ever written, freely available to read.
Is that book piracy? It's right there if you know where to look.
That's pretty much what's going on here. They searched the latent space for an image and found it. But that's because the latent space, like the Library of Babel is really big and contains not just that image but also near-infinite permutations of it.
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There is a short story called The Library of Babel about a near-infinite library that contains every possible permutation of a book with 1,312,000 characters. It is not hard to recreate that library in code. You can explore it if you want.
Contained within that library is a copy of every book ever written, freely available to read.
Is that book piracy? It's right there if you know where to look.
That's pretty much what's going on here. They searched the latent space for an image and found it. But that's because the latent space, like the Library of Babel is really big and contains not just that image but also near-infinite permutations of it.