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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by wwwtyro »

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…

> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore

I've been wondering for a while now if this will lead to an unexpected boon: perhaps people will be forced to pay attention to a speaker's content instead of simply who is speaking.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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gjsman-1000 wrote: post #29
hunkins wrote: post #3

This release changes society forever. Free and open access to generate a hyper-realistic image via just a text prompt is more powerful than I think we can imagine currently. Art, media, politics, conspiracy theories; all of it changes with this.

Eh... if I was making conspiracy theories, it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results.

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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by jcims »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #29
hunkins wrote: post #3

This release changes society forever. Free and open access to generate a hyper-realistic image via just a text prompt is more powerful than I think we can imagine currently. Art, media, politics, conspiracy theories; all of it changes with this.

Eh... if I was making conspiracy theories, it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results.

>it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results.

Agreed. For me those results are predictably shit. Every time.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by criddell »

simonw wrote: post #4

If you want to try it out this seems to be the best tool for doing so: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/

If I’m willing to buy a computer, any pointers on what I would have to buy? I’m asking for specific models from a company like Dell, Apple, or Lenovo?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

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 had a thought for a utopian/dystopian world.

One day these image generators will also get video support... and pornography support. When that happens, a few things may occur that I think are reasonable to predict:

EDIT: Original post was way too wordy, TL;DR:

When AI-generated pornography becomes available, it could be likely that demand for "real" pornography disappears because the AI will match and surpass the "real." When that occurs, the "real" will become increasingly regulated and legally risky, and may just outright be as good as banned.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by wwwtyro »

daenz wrote: post #30
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…

>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.

Yeah, the fact that these models are necessarily based on existing works leaves me hopeful that humans will remain the leaders in this space for the time being.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by Baeocystin »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #22

DALL-E 2 just got smoked. Anyone with a graphics card isn't going to pay to generate images, or have their prompts blocked because of the overly aggressive anti-abuse filter, or have to put up with the DALL-E 2 "signature" in the corner. It makes me wonder how OpenAI is going to work around this because this makes DALL-E 2 a very uncompetitive proposition. Except, of course, for people without graphics cards, but it'…

DALL-E's filters are so harsh that I find myself often in the situation where I don't even understand how what I prompted could possibly be in violation.

It's a novel feeling, but utterly stifling when it comes to actual creativity, and I'm not even trying to push any NSFW boundaries, just explore the artspace. Once I can run unfiltered on my own GPU, DALL-E will never get used by me again.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by croes »

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…

Perhaps we should have started with artificial wisdom instead of artificial intelligence

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by croes »

skybrian wrote: post #47
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…

It seems inevitable like it's "inevitable" that they Photoshop your face onto porn. Yes, of course it will happen but maybe not to most people? I'd guess inevitable for many celebrities.

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