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		zozbot234 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case... You can derive the latter information (the joint distribution), given the former and a prior over "all pixels"-like data. So, the defining feature of "generative" models is that they feature a prior over their input data?

Nimitz14 5 months ago | [–]

Generative models model the data, whether that is p(x) or p(x,y) or (x,y,z) etc.

currymj 5 months ago | [–]

Yes, though maybe not explicitly written down.

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