Interesting, it's a big question I've had for a while, how 'original' stuff coming from these AI systems is, and also the distribution of uniqueness over many

Interesting, it's a big question I've had for a while, how 'original' stuff coming from these AI systems is, and also the distribution of uniqueness over many answers. I haven't dived into it yet, but I find it surprising how little this comes up when these systems are discussed (ie here on HN). Does anyone even know? Can we even check? What if 1 in a thousand, or one in a million outputs is (very close to) something existing? I find this especially relevant when generating faces.