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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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

There are a few different kinds of 'secure enclaves' implemented on chips, where you can have some degree of trust that it "cannot" be faked. E.g. crypto wallets, hardware signing tokens, etc. We could imagine an imaging sensor chip made by a big-name company whose reputation matters, where the imaging sensor chip does the signing itself. So, Sony or Texas Instruments or Canon start manufacturing a CCD chip that cryp…

How would such a camera ensure you're not taking a picture of a picture?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

It will end up back where we started, "it's not on the Blockchain so I didn't say it", while making racist remarks with friends.

"We verified the validity of our source's signature and vouch for it's authenticity"

- Journalist from a respected newsroom, when they choose to keep the source confidential. So it won't be better or worse than it is now: all about transitive reputation.

The unspoken threat to further denials is the risk that the source may go public, or if unauthorized, doxxing the person who recorded the video (assuming signatures have nonrepudiation)

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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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…

Can you please tell me where is the model.ckpt? I am not able to find any weight with ".ckpt" format there in the both links that you have given. There are the ".bin" file on the hugging face.

On the huggingface site, click the checkbox and then access the repository. The chkpt file is under the "files and version" tab.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Played with it for a bit in DreamStudio so I could control more of the settings. So far everything it generates is "high quality", but the AI seems to lack the creativity and breadth of understanding that DALL-E 2 has. OpenAI's model is better at taking wildly differing concepts and figuring out creative ways to glue them together, even if the end result isn't perfect. Stable Diffusion is very resistant to that, and…

Interesting. I took a stab at your prompt and SD really struggles. It just completely ignores part of the prompt. Even craiyon puts in an effort to at least complete the entire prompt. The bison is very realistic at least. So maybe the future is different models that have different specialties. Edit: managed to get this one after a few more tries https://imgur.com/a/3061n5d

You can take an image and feed it into SD along with the prompt (look for img2img in the readme), I think you can use that to create the idea in craiyon and then move to SD for a quality finish.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Can you please tell me where is the model.ckpt? I am not able to find any weight with ".ckpt" format there in the both links that you have given. There are the ".bin" file on the hugging face.

On the huggingface site, click the checkbox and then access the repository. The chkpt file is under the "files and version" tab.

For anyone else reading you need the -original versions. The others are setup for the diffusers library and I can't find a checkpoint file in that, just the original one.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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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…

Seems less likely that everyone will "just be cool with" having pornographic images of themselves with gorillas spread everywhere and more likely that this is the impetus for demagogues to issue a digital ID for access to the internet.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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What’s the license on the images produced by this model?

I still don't understand what the value of specifying a license for generated images is - at least in terms of enforceability. How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a locally-run tool?

I suppose in the case of DALL-E they probably save a copy of every generated image and can use some sort of reverse image search and find if/when the image was created.

With StableDiffusion or any other local tool I don't see how that would be possible. The best I think one could do is come up with a secondary tool that can pinpoint the position in latent space a generated image came from (if that's even possible, I have a limited understanding of how exactly these systems work.) But then, if (heaven forbid) someone applied any sort of cropping or post-processing to the image, an approach like that easily gets blown out of the water.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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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…

StableDiffusion was trained by an academic lab in Germany, which is rather different from a company in California doing it. Though they both have the problem that the output is illegal in many countries with the wrong prompts.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity. This isn't a new idea, and it has some very obvious drawbacks, but I don't see much of a way around the issue. The handshake could work great for something like official news releases, but for other instances that might come up in court, say, dash cam footage…

Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

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