How Many Images Does It Take? Estimating Imitation Thresholds in Text-to-Image Models

Understand

Text-to-image models are trained using large datasets of image-text pairs collected from the internet.

• These datasets often include copyrighted and private images.
• Training models on such datasets enables them to generate images that might violate copyright laws and individual privacy.
• This phenomenon is termed imitation -- generation of images with content that has recognizable similarity to its training images.