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Re: Stable Audio Open

#11

Post by Uehreka »

> The new model was trained on audio data from FreeSound and the Free Music Archive. This allowed us to create an open audio model while respecting creator rights.

This feels like the “Ethereum merge moment” for AI art. Now that there exists a prominent example with the big ethical obstacle (Proof of Work in the case of Ethereum, nonconsensual data-gathering in the case of generative AI) removed, we can actually have interesting conversations about the ethics of these things.

In the past I’ve pushed back on people who made the argument that “generative AI intrinsically requires theft from artists”, but the terrible quality of models trained on public domain data made it difficult to make that argument in earnest, even if I knew I was right in the abstract.

Re: Stable Audio Open

#12

Post by xnx »

samfriedman wrote: post #7

Free idea because I’m never going to get around to building it: An “AI 8 track” app; click record and hum a melody, then add a prompt and click generate. The model converts your input to an instrument matching your prompt, keeping the same notes/rhythm you hummed in the original. Record up to 8 tracks and do some simple mixing. Would be a truly amazing thing for sketching songs! All you need is decent humming/singing…

Google MusicLM (and probably lots of other tools) do this: "MusicLM .. can transform whistled and hummed melodies according to the style described in a text caption."

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

Re: Stable Audio Open

#14

Post by rfoo »

Uehreka wrote: post #11

> The new model was trained on audio data from FreeSound and the Free Music Archive. This allowed us to create an open audio model while respecting creator rights. This feels like the “Ethereum merge moment” for AI art. Now that there exists a prominent example with the big ethical obstacle (Proof of Work in the case of Ethereum, nonconsensual data-gathering in the case of generative AI) removed, we can actually have…

Why is Proof of Work less ethical than Proof of Rich a.k.a. rich being gradually more rich without doing anything?

Not saying PoW is safer (it's not), but less ethical is pretty a bold claim.

Re: Stable Audio Open

#15

Post by littlestymaar »

simonw wrote: post #6
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Note that this has the typical noncommercial "you have to pay for a membership to use commercially" Stability license.

Sigh: Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model [...] License: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-open-1.0/blo... STABILITY AI NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT Stability are one of the worse offenders for abusing the term "open source" at the moment.

What a shame for something that could have been completely free from copyright issues given the training source… (And they're still no legal ground on such a license claim since training hardly qualify as creative process on their side)

Re: Stable Audio Open

#16

Post by rpicard »

rfoo wrote: post #14
Uehreka wrote: post #11

> The new model was trained on audio data from FreeSound and the Free Music Archive. This allowed us to create an open audio model while respecting creator rights. This feels like the “Ethereum merge moment” for AI art. Now that there exists a prominent example with the big ethical obstacle (Proof of Work in the case of Ethereum, nonconsensual data-gathering in the case of generative AI) removed, we can actually have…

Why is Proof of Work less ethical than Proof of Rich a.k.a. rich being gradually more rich without doing anything? Not saying PoW is safer (it's not), but less ethical is pretty a bold claim.

Environmental impact of the proof of work algorithms is my understanding.

Re: Stable Audio Open

#17

Post by elpocko »

simonw wrote: post #6
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Note that this has the typical noncommercial "you have to pay for a membership to use commercially" Stability license.

Sigh: Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model [...] License: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-open-1.0/blo... STABILITY AI NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT Stability are one of the worse offenders for abusing the term "open source" at the moment.

Every time I call out the absurd interpretation of "Open Source" in this space in general, I get showered with downvotes and hateful attacks. One time someone posted their "AI mashup" project on reddit, that egregiously violated the terms of not only one, but several GPL-licensed projects. Calling this out earned me a lot of downvotes and replies with absolutely insane justifications from people with no clue.

No one cares. Not in this space.

Re: Stable Audio Open

#18

Post by ortusdux »

samfriedman wrote: post #7

Free idea because I’m never going to get around to building it: An “AI 8 track” app; click record and hum a melody, then add a prompt and click generate. The model converts your input to an instrument matching your prompt, keeping the same notes/rhythm you hummed in the original. Record up to 8 tracks and do some simple mixing. Would be a truly amazing thing for sketching songs! All you need is decent humming/singing…

App name - Beat-it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYw1bm53Y

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-incredible-way-micha...

Re: Stable Audio Open

#20

Post by tmabraham »

treesciencebot wrote: post #19

This looks like the one that got leaked a couple weeks ago, so i guess they decided its better to open source at this point after the leak [0]. [0]: https://x.com/cto_junior/status/1794632281593893326

it was already planned for open-sourcing, the leak did not affect the plans in any way
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