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Stable Diffusion is a big deal

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Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

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> “Defendant built an algorithm that memorized features of Plaintiff’s IP. Defendant’s algorithm recombines parts of those features in order to produce works in the same domain that compete with Plaintiff’s work, all without Plaintiff’s consent.” The fun part is, this is how human artists learn too.

They absolutely do. What they don’t do is mechanistically clone compressed mathematical representations of input data. The human part of the creative process could very well be a distinguishing feature, legally.

It will be hard to tell whether an image was created by a “human creative process” or AI.

Will the same image be legal if a human made it but not if it was created by Stable Diffusion? How will someone even know, short of a legal discovery process?

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

#32

After using SD heavily for a week, I half agree with this. It is incredibly disruptive, and it's wild how much it accelerates the creative process. I'll give you that. But two things I've noticed: First, artists will still have a massive advantage over non-artists with this tool. A photographer who intimately knows the different lenses and cameras and industry terms will get to a representation of their idea much fas…

Is it possible to provide another image as a prompt for SD? For example, could you provide a simple drawing of a house and expect it to render a house?

You can do using img2img method based on top of SD. Another option is to create an embedding of a concept based on textual inversion and then use the embedding to guide SD generation. Both methods are possible using this: https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion-webui

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

#34

After using SD heavily for a week, I half agree with this. It is incredibly disruptive, and it's wild how much it accelerates the creative process. I'll give you that. But two things I've noticed: First, artists will still have a massive advantage over non-artists with this tool. A photographer who intimately knows the different lenses and cameras and industry terms will get to a representation of their idea much fas…

Is it possible to provide another image as a prompt for SD? For example, could you provide a simple drawing of a house and expect it to render a house?

Yes: https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They absolutely do. What they don’t do is mechanistically clone compressed mathematical representations of input data. The human part of the creative process could very well be a distinguishing feature, legally.

It will be hard to tell whether an image was created by a “human creative process” or AI. Will the same image be legal if a human made it but not if it was created by Stable Diffusion? How will someone even know, short of a legal discovery process?

The watermark.

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

#36

One day, images generated with these AIs will become ubiquitous online, and new AIs training on data will wind up with feedback problems because they got trained on photos that are AI generated, possibly even ones they themselves generated! This tech is a huge deal. Huge. Ubiquitous unique, beautiful art. Entire movies made by machines. Too many to even watch them all. Actor models that aren't real people owned by th…

Images generated have a watermark that can be used to filter.

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

#38
post #28

These systems make for a good family game in our house. We take turns with prompts and have the laptop broadcasting to the TV. I imagine you could make a more formal party game from it - some sort of weird version of Pictionary perhaps?

Yah, you'd have to guess the input text that generated the image.

Re: Stable Diffusion is a big deal

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post #28

These systems make for a good family game in our house. We take turns with prompts and have the laptop broadcasting to the TV. I imagine you could make a more formal party game from it - some sort of weird version of Pictionary perhaps?

Yah, you'd have to guess the input text that generated the image.

I'm honestly going to think about game ideas and try some with the family. It's fun to play with these models on your own, but it's way more fun with a group of people laughing and one-upping.

(Also, very happy for somebody to steal this idea!)

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