We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion

That's a lie, sure, but if they had instead claimed:

The output of stable diffusion isn't possible without first examining millions of copyrighted images

Then the suit looks a little more solid, because (as you pointed out) it isn't possible for the stable diffusion owner to know which of those copyright images had clauses that prevents stable diffusion trading and similar usage.

The whole problem goes away once artists and photographers starting using a license that explicitly removes any use of the work as training data for any automated training.

Computerphile has friendly introductions to just about everything: https://youtu.be/1CIpzeNxIhU

When you look around, you don't actually see most of stuff that's right there... you've got a small area you can see, about the size of your outstretched thumb[1], the rest of the world you think you're seeing is a projection in your mind, built as your eye darts from object to object.

Thus, when we see things, we have already built a relationship map of the parts of an image, not actual pixels. This makes it possible to observe the world and interact with it in real time referencing the pieces and the concepts we label them with, otherwise we'd have to stop and very carefully look around every single time we wanted to take a step.

These networks effectively do the same thing, taking in parts of images and their relationships. It's not uncommon for me to see what is clearly a distorted copy of a Getty Images trademark when I run stable diffusion locally. There's an artist who always puts his daughter Nina's name in his work... the network just thinks its just another style, and I suspect that's same for the Getty thing.

One thing that is super cool is you can draw a horribly amateur sketch of something, and have Stable Diffusion turn it into something close to the starting drawing in outline, but far better in detail.

A sketch of a flower I did came out as Tulips, Roses and Poppy depending on the prompts used to process it, but it was generally in the same pose and scale.

[1] https://developer.tobii.com/xr/learn/eye-behavior/visual-ang...

Worms help create fertile soil.

Producing more topsoil would be a huge win here on Earth and make colonizing other planets dramatically more feasible.

Don't underestimate worms!

Lord Byron (father of Ada Lovelace) defended the Luddites quite succinctly back then and it is as applicable today: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/byron-was-one-few-...

"But the police, however useless, were by no means idle: several notorious delinquents had been detected; men liable to conviction, on the clearest evidence, of the capital crime of poverty; men, who had been nefariously guilty of lawfully begetting several children, whom, thanks to the times!—they were unable to maintain. Considerable injury has been done to the proprietors of the improved frames. These machines were to them an advantage, inasmuch as they superseded the necessity of employing a number of workmen, who were left in consequence to starve. By the adoption of one species of frame in particular, one man performed the work of many, and the superfluous labourers were thrown out of employment."

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"The rejected workmen, in the blindness of their ignorance, instead of rejoicing at these improvements in arts so beneficial to mankind, conceived themselves to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism. In the foolishness of their hearts, they imagined that the maintenance and well doing of the industrious poor, were objects of greater consequence than the enrichment of a few individuals by any improvement in the implements of trade which threw the workmen out of employment, and rendered the labourer unworthy of his hire. And, it must be confessed, that although the adoption of the enlarged machinery, in that state of our commerce which the country once boasted, might have been beneficial to the master without being detrimental to the servant;"

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"These men never destroyed their looms till they were become useless, worse than useless; till they were become actual impediments to their exertions in obtaining their daily bread. Can you then wonder, that in times like these, when bankruptcy, convicted fraud, and imputed felony, are found in a station not far beneath that of your Lordships, the lowest, though once most useful portion of the people, should forget their duty in their distresses, and become only less guilty than one of their representatives? But while the exalted offender can find means to baffle the law, new capital punishments must be devised, new snares of death must be spread, for the wretched mechanic who is famished into guilt. These men were willing to dig, but the spade was in other hands; they were not ashamed to beg, but there was none to relieve them. Their own means of subsistence were cut off; all other employments pre-occupied; and their excesses, however to be deplored and condemned, can hardly be the subject of surprise."

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"The present measure will, indeed, pluck it from the sheath; yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages of these riots,—had the grievances of these men and their masters (for they also have had their grievances) been fairly weighed and justly examined, I do think that means might have been devised to restore these workmen to their avocations, and tranquillity to the country."