Generation AI creates symbol generation teams for artists, and the company just introduced Have I Been Trained?that you can use to search for a set of 5. 8 billion symbols that have been used to exercise popular AI art models. When you search for the site, you can search through the symbols that best suit you, in the LAION-5B exercise data, which is widely used to exercise AI search terms.
It’s a fun tool to play with and can help give insight into the knowledge that AI uses as a basis for itself. The most sensitive photo in this article is a screenshot of the searched term “partner. “Try to put your own call and see what happens. . . I also tried to look at “Obama,” which I might not share a screenshot of here, but suffice it to say that those educational sets can be. . . Problems.
A report via Ars Technica this week shows that consistent personal medical records (up to thousands) are among the many images hidden in LAION-5B with questionable moral and legal statuses. Deleting those records is exceptionally difficult, as LAION is a collection of files consistent with se, but only a set of URLs that point to photographs on the web.
In response, technologists like Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon are leading efforts like Source, to allow others to ban the use of their paintings or likenesses for AI educational purposes. But those are, and probably will continue to be, voluntary, restricting their prospective impact.
Via DIY / PetaPixel