From the Hacker News thread
The last author's tweet thread and replies have some interesting tidbits: twitter.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/162044… * "We propose to extract memorized images by generating many times with the same prompt and flagging cases where many of the generations are the same." * "- Diffusion models memorize more than GANs - Outlier images are memorized more - Existing privacy-preserving methods largely fail" * "Stable Diffusion is small relative to its training set (2GB of weights and many TB of data). So, while memorization is rare by design, future (larger) diffusion models will memorize more." * "It only memorizes a very small subset of the images that it trains on." * "our goal is to show that models can output training images when generating in the same fashion that normal users do."