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Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by canoebuilder »

jquery wrote: post #110
Roark66 wrote: post #74

Every single time I see an article about a new AI model that has a section called "societal impact" I know immediately they are not releasing the model, the training set, nothing... It seems to be the kind of bullshit statement that those companies put in place of "we paid $500k training this model and we're not giving it for free to anyone".

I for one am glad that, for once in my life, an obviously huge advancement is taking into account the human impact of releasing the technology responsibly. Maybe it’s just a “BS statement” but given the major strides they’re making at removing racial/gender biases[1] from similar projects, I don’t think it’s just hot air. Especially given the phenomenon of “bias amplification”. Maybe I’m being too optimistic but eith…

Everything has a “bias” including reality. This type of talk is not about removing biases, it is about imposing biases in line with the wokeligion and attempting to manipulate public view away from the facts of reality. But reality always wins in the end.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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tgv wrote: post #121
kache_ wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

right, because I can't be trusted to not be racist

Indeed, you can't be trusted not do anything bad with it. Who's going to vet each and every user? Who's going to check every time it's used for the coming 10, 20, 30 years?

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Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by acoard »

prophesi wrote: post #136
SXX wrote: post #84

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Fortunately we have Stability.AI and they release their image generation model already. Hopefully they'll follow with other projects too. https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release

There's also a fork that requires a lot less VRAM. I was able to get this working with an Nvidia GTX 1070. https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion You'd clone the fork, then download Stability AI's checkpoint, sd-v1-4.ckpt, from https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... Follow the instructions in the forked repo, and you should be good to go in a manner of minutes.

The only issue I had was WSL 2 was not using my GPU, so obviously it failed. Couldn't get it working on Windows either, failed at installing dependencies. I'm thinking of dual-booting Linux just to try out stable-diffusion.

I normally dev on Linux but don't do GPU work, only my Windows gaming PC has the horsepower to run stable-diffusion and unfortunately I couldn't get it working on Windows. Shame cause I'd love to play around with it! Does anyone have any tips?

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by canoebuilder »

napolux wrote: post #156

Is anyone aware of people doing the same for NSFW images? They can easily wipe out an entire industry. No models to pay and to check for legal ages, infinite possibilities: just write the pic you want, the massive body part you want, how many genitals are involved and boom. You have your image.

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Post by remram »

prophesi wrote: post #136
SXX wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately we have Stability.AI and they release their image generation model already. Hopefully they'll follow with other projects too. https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release

There's also a fork that requires a lot less VRAM. I was able to get this working with an Nvidia GTX 1070. https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion You'd clone the fork, then download Stability AI's checkpoint, sd-v1-4.ckpt, from https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... Follow the instructions in the forked repo, and you should be good to go in a manner of minutes.

Anyone built a Docker image for this? I don't want to duplicate efforts.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by canoebuilder »

canoebuilder wrote: post #184
napolux wrote: post #156

Is anyone aware of people doing the same for NSFW images? They can easily wipe out an entire industry. No models to pay and to check for legal ages, infinite possibilities: just write the pic you want, the massive body part you want, how many genitals are involved and boom. You have your image.

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I speak from a place of compassion. Let’s make it past the Great Filter, our descendants at least, and not wank ourselves to death.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by rhacker »

tgv wrote: post #121
kache_ wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

right, because I can't be trusted to not be racist

Indeed, you can't be trusted not do anything bad with it. Who's going to vet each and every user? Who's going to check every time it's used for the coming 10, 20, 30 years?

If he's racist he can already hire black people to take a photo for an "upcoming action movie" called evil baby. They will be asked to hold guns aiming it at a crib. Then release it on the internet and say he saw 3 black people about to shoot a baby.

It would be called out as fake or staged just like an imagen/walle2/openai would be called out as fake. The thing that makes stories real is real people - actual events and backed up testimonies.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by prophesi »

acoard wrote: post #183
prophesi wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also a fork that requires a lot less VRAM. I was able to get this working with an Nvidia GTX 1070. https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion You'd clone the fork, then download Stability AI's checkpoint, sd-v1-4.ckpt, from https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... Follow the instructions in the forked repo, and you should be good to go in a manner of minutes.

The only issue I had was WSL 2 was not using my GPU, so obviously it failed. Couldn't get it working on Windows either, failed at installing dependencies. I'm thinking of dual-booting Linux just to try out stable-diffusion. I normally dev on Linux but don't do GPU work, only my Windows gaming PC has the horsepower to run stable-diffusion and unfortunately I couldn't get it working on Windows. Shame cause I'd love to…

Hm, what issues did you come across on Windows? I have it running on both a Windows PC and a Fedora PC. I uninstalled python, then installed the full installation of Anaconda. Then I followed the "Requirements" section of the readme and I was good to go.

Edit: Just noticed they removed the instructions from the readme for some reason. The requirements section can be found in this diff: https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/commit/487a0f...

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by jquery »

ImprobableTruth wrote: post #150
jquery wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I for one am glad that, for once in my life, an obviously huge advancement is taking into account the human impact of releasing the technology responsibly. Maybe it’s just a “BS statement” but given the major strides they’re making at removing racial/gender biases[1] from similar projects, I don’t think it’s just hot air. Especially given the phenomenon of “bias amplification”. Maybe I’m being too optimistic but eith…

>the major strides they’re making at removing racial/gender biases They're literally just appending a race/gender string at the end [1]. In what world is that not just hot air? [1] https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440

That’s a pretty uncharitable interpretation of my post. You shared an example of a single mitigation that you personally find ludicrous (without explaining why). And then I’m supposed to throw up my hands and go “I guess it’s pointless to try and be less racist”?

Bias amplification is a real issue. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

Tay might still be around if Microsoft gave a thought to potential issues before release. I’d prefer not to have this awesome technology tainted out of the gate as a tool for racists and pornographers. They’ll get their hands on it eventually but it’d be nice if they don’t get all the up-front press.

Re: Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text

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Post by [deleted] »

napolux wrote: post #156

Is anyone aware of people doing the same for NSFW images? They can easily wipe out an entire industry. No models to pay and to check for legal ages, infinite possibilities: just write the pic you want, the massive body part you want, how many genitals are involved and boom. You have your image.

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