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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by tshaddox »

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…

That seems unlikely, given that making up hurtful stories about people and transmitting them via text or voice is still a thing. Everyone knows that anyone can make up any story they want without any technology whatsoever, and yet spreading rumors is still a thing.

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Post by panabee »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #14

So is there a simple way to do this online? I have no dedicated gpu and won’t buy one just for this. We‘d pay.

hotpot.ai should offer stable diffusion later today and available via API as well.

we're also building an open-source version of imagen, if anyone likes working on this kind of applied ML (need ML + design help).

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by scarmig »

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.

We can tell the difference between muzak and "real music"; we just dislike the muzak. But the real risk and likelihood is that we get to the point that AI will be generating art that is indistinguishable from human-generated art, and it's only muzak if someone subscribes to the idea that the content of art is less relevant than its provenance. Some people will, particularly rich people who use art as a status signifier/money laundering vehicle, but mass media artists will struggle to find buyers among the less discerning mass audience.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by zone411 »

boredemployee wrote: post #64
egypturnash wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yep. I'm glad that didn't hit other spaces, like music, _yet_

Check out the melodies I made with an AI assistant I created (human-in-the-loop still but much quicker than if I tried to come up with them from the scratch): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFwkumE578Y.... There are also good AI tools for other parts of making music, like singing voice generation.

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Post by gabereiser »

eastbound wrote: post #70
croes wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will be more now. Photoshop needs some skills. With AI it gets easier and easier.

But even today, we deal correctly with it. Fakes and real photos are mingled together in 9Gag/LatestNews reports about Ukraine. Under the fakes (and the real), people ask for confirmation. Someone says it’s true, no-one believes him, until a link to a newspaper is dropped. And 9Gag isn’t the highest IQ community around, so yes, general population does distrusts photos by default until proven. They are laughed at anyw…

The problem comes from the early adult newsroom interns responsible for sourcing content. They don’t know it’s fake, it sounds like a good click-baity article to them, so they run it. It happens.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by minimaxir »

superdisk wrote: post #93

Just tried it, the results seem pretty poor, about on par with Craiyon/DALL-E Mini. I don't think OpenAI should be worried quite yet.

It depends on the domain. Artsy will do better with Stable Diffusion, but realistic/coherent output with Stable Diffusion is harder to do especially compared to DALL-E 2.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by jupp0r »

"Use Restrictions

You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model:

- In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;

- For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;

- To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;

- To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;

- To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;

- For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;

- To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;

- To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;

- To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use)."

The last point seems to be the only thing that's not illegal, all other restrictions seem to be covered under "you are not allowed to break laws", which is somewhat redundant.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by ben_w »

hedora wrote: post #79
laverya wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it really reads like "we know people are going to do nasty things with this; we can't prevent that; please don't sue us over it" to me

They really should have used blanket liability waiver text and left it at that. I’m sure someone will find a way to sue them anyway. It doesn’t even call out using this to create derivative works to avoid paying original authors copyright fees. On top of that, their logo is an obvious rip off of a Van Gogh. It seems clear they’re actively encouraging people to create similar works that infringe active copyrights. The…

> On top of that, their logo is an obvious rip off of a Van Gogh. It seems clear they’re actively encouraging people to create similar works that infringe active copyrights.

I don't think Van Gogh's works are under copyright any more. At least not directly, recent photos of them may be but that's the photos not the paintings that have a copyright.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by timmg »

GaggiX wrote: post #96
badsectoracula wrote: post #44

Is there any way to download this on my PC and run it offline? Something like a command-line tool like $ ./something "cow flying in space" > cow-in-space.png that runs with local-only data (i.e. no internet access, no DRM, no weird API keys, etc like pretty much every AI-related application i've seen recently) would be neat.

Yes you can https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.2.3 (probably the easiest way)

Garr:

> And log in on your machine using the huggingface-cli login command.

I find that annoying. I guess it is what it is.

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