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Post by fpgaminer »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

If I recall from the interview with Stability.ai's founder, he has more or less the same opinion, and that humans will adapt to the new technology as we always have. I figure "please don't abuse this technology" warning stickers are more CYA. It'll make the vast majority of judges look at a motion to dismiss and not blink an eye.

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Post by patientplatypus »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

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Post by ben_w »

quadcore wrote: post #78
daenz wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. I agree, but not for the reasons you imply. It will force real artists to differentiate themselves from AI, since the line is now sufficiently blurred. It's probably the death of an era of digital art as we know it.

Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet :) Those models are trained on artists work and put those same artists out of work. When people will register I dont think this is gonna fly.

> Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet.

What is special about France in this case?

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Post by Swizec »

ForrestN wrote: post #63
mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

I wonder/hope if a downstream effect of this technological change will be the end of the idea of a "shameful" or "humiliating" image. We all have bodies, we all have sex, and I agree that soon images of ourselves being nude/having sex etc. will proliferate because they'll be generated instantly via Siri shortcut as part of casual banter. In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an im…

> In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? Will Norms and values around sex/body shaming change?

I hoped this would happen with social media. Everyone says stupid shit online and everyone has past beliefs they’ve outgrown. So what’s the big deal?

Instead we went the opposite way. Everyone is super self conscious and censoring at all times because you never know who’s gonna take it out of context and make a big deal.

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Post by jmfldn »

archagon wrote: post #99
soulofmischief wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Human works are needed to create the initial datasets, but an increasing amount of models use generative feedback loops to create more training data. This layer can easily introduce novel styles and concepts without further human input. The time is coming where we will need to, as patrons, reevaluate our relationships with art. I fear art is returning to a patronage model, at least for now, as certainly an industry w…

Why would people want to consume art that says nothing and means nothing? While this technology is fascinating, it produces the visual equivalent of muzak, and will continue to do so in perpetuity without the ability to reason.

That's the problem for me too. This tech is cool for games, stock images etc but for actual art it's pretty meaningless. The artist's experience, biography and relationship with the world and how that feeds into their work is the WHOLE point for me. I want to engage, via any real artistic product, with a lived human experience. Human consciousness in other words.

To me this technology is very clever but it's meaningless as far as real art goes, or it's a sideshow at best. Perhaps best case, it can augment a human artistic practice.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by ben_w »

archagon wrote: post #99
soulofmischief wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Human works are needed to create the initial datasets, but an increasing amount of models use generative feedback loops to create more training data. This layer can easily introduce novel styles and concepts without further human input. The time is coming where we will need to, as patrons, reevaluate our relationships with art. I fear art is returning to a patronage model, at least for now, as certainly an industry w…

Why would people want to consume art that says nothing and means nothing? While this technology is fascinating, it produces the visual equivalent of muzak, and will continue to do so in perpetuity without the ability to reason.

How much is really being said by the highest dollar-valued modern music?

https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ and https://youtu.be/L2cfxv8Pq-Q come to mind for different reasons.

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Post by TylerE »

ForrestN wrote: post #94
Fauntleroy wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we get to the point where we can't tell AI generated images from reality, I'm not sure "body shaming" will be on society's collective radar anymore.

Why?

Much bigger fish to fry.

Think things like forged evidence in trials.

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Post by naillo »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

I much prefer a company that asks me to not abuse it but lets me, then a company that treats me like child and force filters it out for me.

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Post by fithisux »

egypturnash wrote: post #41
mkaic wrote: post #2

This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. Millions of people just got unconditional access to the state-of-the-art in AI text-to-image for absolutely free less the cost of hardware. I have an Nvidia GPU myself and am thrilled beyond belief with the possibilities that this opens up. Am planning on doing some deep dives into latent-space exploration algorithms and hypernetworks in the coming days…

It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.

AI will just replace existing jobs. It is unethical since a lot of people will be destroyed but our leaders sponsored by the majority's insatiable appetite for power will soon make it legal.

AI is a new tool that will automate away a lot of workers like other machines.

What happens with these workers is what defines us.

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Post by naillo »

alcover wrote: post #88

Moral question: Such tool will be used to generate lewd imagery involving virtual minors. No way to prevent it upstream by outlawing feeding it real content (whose possession already is illegal). Suffice to add 'childrenize' layer onto adult NN or something. How will the legal system react ? Bundle it into illegal imagery, period ? Maybe it's already the case - I think drawing made public is, not sure. If not, on wha…

If it is made illegal it'll probably be applied to the sites that distribute stuff like that, not this model itself.
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