[F2hP18Foam]

I wonder if the same will happen to Midjourney or Dall-E. I have generated images on Midjourney that literally had a 'Shutterstock' watermark plastered across them. This watermark was conspicuously missing when the image was upscaled.

[throwaway0x7E6]

not to Dall-E, because OpenAI is the very source of all these "ethical concerns" about unwashed masses having access to these tools

[klyrs]

I've seen models amplify textures into noise, which attracts towards periodic noise, which has a goodly chance of turning into a watermark. Usually the watermark is gibberish proto-letters but yeah I've seen straight-up Shutterstock watermarks appear too.

[noduerme]

I've had stock photo watermarks show up repeatedly in SD generations as well.

[jhbadger]

And in "paintings" I generate with SD I often see a squiggle in the corner that is presumably the result of a signature in the training set.

[wnkrshm]

If you browse LAION (e.g. using this [0]), which SD uses you find all sorts of owned IP there (shutterstock, artstation, fanart from deviantart and tumblr etc.) - because it's a research data set. LAION has a disclaimer that it does not claim ownership and that any troubles you run into by using the graph are your own.

[0] https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval