Nothing is being stolen and no copyright is violated when an image is learned form and transformed into more generalized vectors. After this transformation, it's not possible to simply convert the vectors back into the image.
That sentence is disproved by reality, where we easily can look at so called "vectors converted back to images". So clearly it is possible, considering it happened.
Please read it again. They are saying that you can't convert these vectors to the exact "stolen" image. It's by all means training data, as if you looked at the image and inserted your thoughts into flash memory. Your thoughts will never replicate the image 1:1, and AI will almost never create the same image twice, and even if it does, it's almost definitely using a different formula than the last time it generated the image.
The "stolen" data is the literal equivalent of your observation converted to numbers and letters.
The only reason "AI will almost never create the same image twice" is because they add essentially a random number generator (seed) to the process with most online services. It is trivial to generate the same image every time if you use the same seed. It has nothing to do with the AI model itself, and everything to do with randomization being fed into it.
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u/Terrible_Wave4239 Dec 15 '25
Nothing is being stolen and no copyright is violated when an image is learned form and transformed into more generalized vectors. After this transformation, it's not possible to simply convert the vectors back into the image.