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Researchers show how Stable Diffusion can read minds. The method reconstructs images from fMRI scans with amazing accuracy.

Researchers have been using AI models to decode information from the human brain for years. At their core, most methods involve using pre-recorded fMRI images as input to a generative AI model for text or images.

In early 2018, for example, a group of researchers from Japan demonstrated how a neural network reconstructed images from fMRI recordings. In 2019, a group reconstructed images from monkey neurons, and Meta’s research group, led by Jean-Remi King, has published new work that derives text from fMRI data, for example.