A new study offers some evidence that art-generating AI systems like Stable Diffusion copy from the data on which they were trained. “Even though diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion produce beautiful images, and often ones that appear highly original and custom tailored to a particular text prompt, we show that these images may actually be copied from their training data, either wholesale or by copying only parts of training images,” the researcher said.
Source: Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns