The speaker says academic literature provides substantial evidence that diffusion models are easier to control and support steering methods unavailable to autoregressive models.

“clear the generation in the direction provided by an external reward function or some set of constraints and so there is a lot of evidence in the academic literature at least that diffusion models are easier to control and there are different ways of steering them that are just not possible without the regressor models so that would be a different interface for the model that maybe might not be even available for other regressor models i think that's something that”