Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
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Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#2Good for all of us maybe some good alternatives to colab will be created cause of that.
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#3Good for all of us maybe some good alternatives to colab will be created cause of that.
why would any other company have the urge to do this?
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#4I really do not like that because the ban feels fuzzy. If you are a researcher exploring those algorithms and using Colab because you have very limited GPU access of you own, you might now be worried that your very own topic of research will get you banned from the ressource you are using.
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#5I have wondered in the past what kind of monitoring / data harvesting google is doing with colab. I don't use them for anything nontrivial or work related precisely because I worry about google stealing my stuff or that I would be violating agreements with my customers by exposing their data to google. This story reinforces that they are snooping.
That aside, I don't think I find this too upsetting. They don't let people e.g. mine cryptocurrency either, I think it's fine that they limit how you can use their free (or cheap) "service".
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#6It is their right to ban any use they want. Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig.
As consumers we can use or not use platforms like Google, Twitter, etc. as we like, or not.
Colab’s ban will be good for small 3rd party GPU cloud providers and that is a good thing. Same thing with Twitter: in the last month there is now better material on Mastodon.
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#7Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
why would any other company have the urge to do this?
Because nature abhors a vacuum, and this technology has created one.
It turns out that nature doesn't make SAAS
This is an extremely expensive service to make and run, requiring tens of millions of dollars of hardware to get started, and doesn't produce revenue
Instead of folksy sayings, see if you can answer the actual question
What motivation does another company have for creating this service?
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because nature abhors a vacuum, and this technology has created one.
It turns out that nature doesn't make SAAS This is an extremely expensive service to make and run, requiring tens of millions of dollars of hardware to get started, and doesn't produce revenue Instead of folksy sayings, see if you can answer the actual question What motivation does another company have for creating this service?
Make people depends on ecosystem. I'll see AWS/Azure/NVIDIA doing smth like that as that just to create they own ecosystem as its extremely profitable to sell gpu VM's for them.
Re: Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
#10I really do not like that because the ban feels fuzzy. If you are a researcher exploring those algorithms and using Colab because you have very limited GPU access of you own, you might now be worried that your very own topic of research will get you banned from the ressource you are using.
I'd assume they recognized this, which is why it's implemented as a warning rather than a ban.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is the first step towards correlating "Are you the 1% using huge amounts of Colab time to only run deepfake models?"
We'll see what the follow-up is, but at least the initial implementation seems less auto-ban-y than more mature Google services default to.