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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by seydor »

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 think that s a hopeful message.

At first we will see a lot of "prompt censoring mobs" that will try to "stop abusers because children and terrorists", but as the images multiply, and they will multiply, the line between real and fake photos will become hard to spot, for real. This is i think a pivotal and great moment, because everyone can now claim plausible deniability to any picture. No revenge porn will be believable anymore, nor will anyone know if that Bezos's weiner pic is real or not.

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Post by ompto »

vintermann wrote: post #161
mkaic wrote: post #98

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Yes, that's actually the biggest reason this is such a cool announcement! You just need to download the model checkpoints from HuggingFace[0] and follow the instructions on their Github repo[1] and and you should be good to go. You basically just need to clone the repo, set up a conda environment, and make the weights available to the scripts they provide. [0] https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion [1] https…

You need a decent GPU, though. I suspect my 6080MiB won't cut it any longer :(

There's a version that's a bit slower but more memory efficient https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion that runs on 6GB too.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by GaggiX »

amrrs wrote: post #191
serf wrote: post #185

this one was incredibly easy to trick into producing uncensored nudes. which. personally.. I think is great.. but to each their own (NSFW!!!) this ween does not exist : https://i.ibb.co/D7qJ7HC/23456532.png

They have a content filter classifier at the top wondering how this escaped that.

You can disable it

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by TulliusCicero »

bluejellybean wrote: post #39

While neat, and no doubt impressive, it still utterly fails on prompts that should be completely reasonable to any sane human being/artist. Take something like "A cat dancing atop a cow, with utters that are made out of ar-15s that shoot lazer-beam confetti". A vivid description should be aroused in your head, and no doubt, I could imagine an artist have a lot of fun creating such a description... Alas, what the mode…

More complex/weirder prompts aren't going to work yet, no.

What will probably happen with these models is that for more advanced stuff, you may using the "inpainting" that Dall-E already has going, where you can sort of mix and match and combine images. That way you could have the cat, for example, rendered separately, thereby simplifying each individual prompt.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by seydor »

tshaddox wrote: post #121
ForrestN wrote: post #63

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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.

Not really. I can't think of a recent "leaked texts" that the participants cannot not easily and plausibly deny (e.g. elon's supposed messages to gates), or even voice messages. Even most images can already be denied as photoshop if all the witnesses agree. The only medium that is somewhat hard to deny is videos, like sex tapes, but that's also not too hard. I think there will soon be a race to make deep learning pics look completely indistinguishable from phone pics.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by seydor »

Swizec wrote: post #114
ForrestN wrote: post #63

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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 k…

This is not the same though, it's about being able to deny that that photo of you is real, not that it's taken out of context.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by redavni »

egypturnash wrote: post #157
mkaic wrote: post #85

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(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster . And every place this shit get…

Eh...the countdown to Photoshop and Blender integrating AI support has already started.
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