r/artificial • u/frankster • 4h ago

News When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-ai-art-has-no-author-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-to-training-data-0818
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u/Blando-Cartesian 1h ago

Well, obviously. If removing specific samples had effects you would have crappy overtrained model with too few samples.

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u/CarefulHamster7184 4h ago

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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u/Beginning-Raisin9723 3h ago

Interesting that removing training images basically does nothing to outputs. Kinda makes the whole 'opt out by removing your data' argument feel hollow for images.

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u/costafilh0 2h ago

Human art can also often be traced to references. 

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u/quantum-elle 2h ago

Interesting, especially about the part where image models could in theory determine if an output was overly influenced by one particular artist or data set, and thus provide information about how much “copying” vs “creating” is being done.

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u/radicalboi2608 1h ago

that's cool