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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by treis »

andybak wrote: post #140
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.

With all due respect, I've been using it for over a week and I don't think you've given it a fair shot. There's plenty of cases it's worse than Dall-E and there's plenty of cases where it's better. Overall it seems to show less semantic understanding but it handles many stylistic suggestions much better. It's definitely in the right ballpark. In fact I'm still using a wide range of models - many of which aren't regar…

Can you give an example? I've done:

A house painted blue with a white porch

A dreamy shot of an alpaca playing lacrosse

A red car parked in a driveway

The last one was particularly crappy. It gave me a red house with a driveway, but no car. And the house wasn't even really a house. It superficially looked like one but was actually two garages put together.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by naillo »

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.

This should be possible if someone just exported them to tflite or onnxruntime etc (quantization could help a ton too). Not sure why ppl haven't yet. Sure it'll come in the next few days (I might do it).

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by boredemployee »

fithisux wrote: post #119
egypturnash wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And there are a lot of influencers saying that it will be "really nice that AI will replace the boring jobs so we can focus on creative/fulfilling life" yeah right...

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by nerdponx »

zone411 wrote: post #225
seydor wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pic…

It'll be hard to deny crypto-signed photos https://petapixel.com/2022/08/08/sonys-forgery-proof-tech-ad... , especially if they include metadata that distinguish photos of AI generated images from normal photos.

Are journalists savvy or ethical enough to give a shit? What about the people reading/viewing/listening to the news?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by zone411 »

seydor wrote: post #226
zone411 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'll be hard to deny crypto-signed photos https://petapixel.com/2022/08/08/sonys-forgery-proof-tech-ad... , especially if they include metadata that distinguish photos of AI generated images from normal photos.

any camera can be hacked to plant an image in its framebuffer

Maybe at some point for some cameras. But not soon after their release if they took steps to protect their pipeline with hardware.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by RandomLensman »

narrator wrote: post #90
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…

As someone who witnessed AI Dungeon's GPT-3 model with an unlimited uninhibited imagination for erotica I would download everything now before they cripple the models. I would not be surprised if they very shortly completely stop downloads due to "abuse" and pursue a SAAS model. I think it's funny how Yandex, a Russian company, releases these big language models without all the AI safety handwringing in their press r…

It's not about control of advanced technologies but rather making such technologies look more powerful by pointing out real or imagined destructive capabilities. If you want funding or "big up" a topic, claim it has the power to bring down the world (anyone remembering gray goo?).

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by BrainVirus »

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?

No, because the image itself doesn't matter. What matters is how much the public wants to hate someone. If t he public is primed, any remotely plausible incriminating image will do as an excuse.

Fortunately, these images are actually far than what someone can cook up with Photoshop. Unfortunately, it's a part of a bigger trend where we get more and more tools to produce, manipulates and share information, while the tools to analyze and filter information are lagging by at least half a century.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by nerdponx »

davesque wrote: post #237

Pretty cool. Although it's interesting that it can't seem to render an image from a precise description that should have something like an objectively correct answer. I tried prompts like "Middle C engraved on a staff with a treble clef" and "An SN74LS173 integrated circuit chip on a breadboard" both of which came back with images that were nowhere close to something I'd call accurate. I don't mean to detract from th…

I am generally of the "it's not threatening yet and won't be for a while" camp, but in this particular case it's probably just for lack of trying. These algorithms are essentially enormous pattern-matching engines, so given enough data and some task-specific engineering effort, I wouldn't be surprised if you could build an "AI" circuit designer, like Copilot but for electronics instead of code.

Next-level autorouting would be cool, but it's still not going to put the electrical engineering field out of business.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by aortega »

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…

>make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla[0]

I don't understand this irrational fear. This can be done today, just need some minutes instead of some seconds to create a good Photoshop.

Also, seriously this is the thing you fear? fake porn? there are much worse thing you can do with this tech, like phising, falsifications, etc. Not mentioning leaving millions of graphic designers out of job.

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