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Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by manmal »

p-e-w wrote: post #41
esjeon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but, when it comes to generating NSFW contents, it is illegal to distribute pornographic software in some countries, and doing so can lead to domain blockage and such (i.e. South Korea, believe or not). This is something you gotta understand. Also, if the author wanted to block NSFW contents at all, I'm pretty sure one can actually make the filter inseparable from the main network. This isn't the case here AFAI…

That makes no sense. You can draw whatever you like with Photoshop. You can search for whatever you want on Google. That doesn't make the software "NSFW", and no country will block Photoshop's domain just because someone used Photoshop to create NSFW content. Don't let people who are clearly motivated by a moralistic desire to control others hide behind BS pseudo-legal excuses.

Explain this to insert regime when they block your GitHub repo or make using your software a felony. You are proposing to act on ideology, while such mitigations are rooted in pragmatism. You often can’t have both.

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by imron »

piyh wrote: post #19
oefrha wrote: post #7

Almost impossible to pinpoint what changed thanks to thousands of lines of completely irrelevant changes and shitty commit messages. It seems the only changeset that might be relevant out of +2,273 -1,531 is the +11 -7 from https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/pull/103/comm... ? Does it even work?

As a learning opportunity for people like me, what does a good PR look like for a large change?

Follow this: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

and this: https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/atomic-git-commit...

That way your "large change" becomes a collection of small, easy to reason about and well explained changes.

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by p-e-w »

greesil wrote: post #49
p-e-w wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter. It goes without saying that the authors of a piece of software have the right to make the software do whatever they want, but that shouldn't stop us from recognizing that AI engineers are starting to act like megalomaniac overseers who consider it part of their mission to steer humanity…

Yes, the megalomania of someone who makes their code and models freely available.

StableDiffusion isn't freely available, in the "Free Software" sense. They use the highly uncommon "CreativeML Open RAIL-M License" which is a wall of text composed of weasel words describing how the software is so incredibly advanced and dangerous that despite the authors' earnest wish to do so, they cannot in good conscience make it genuinely Free Software.

These people wrote a bunch of Python code that pipes images and text through a GPU, and they're acting as if they had created a secret weapon that somehow humanity must be protected from. If that's not megalomania, I don't know what is.

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by gpt5 »

moneycantbuy wrote: post #17
gpt5 wrote: post #12

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I can generate a 768x896 pixels image on an RTX 3090, using 23.4/24GB

How does the content of the images look compared to the same prompt and seed for 512x512? I ask because when I make 768x896 with M1 MAX the resulting image is less coherent, more noisy, and or has repeating subject matter, nothing really usable unlike 512x512.

Same here.

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by esjeon »

p-e-w wrote: post #41
esjeon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but, when it comes to generating NSFW contents, it is illegal to distribute pornographic software in some countries, and doing so can lead to domain blockage and such (i.e. South Korea, believe or not). This is something you gotta understand. Also, if the author wanted to block NSFW contents at all, I'm pretty sure one can actually make the filter inseparable from the main network. This isn't the case here AFAI…

That makes no sense. You can draw whatever you like with Photoshop. You can search for whatever you want on Google. That doesn't make the software "NSFW", and no country will block Photoshop's domain just because someone used Photoshop to create NSFW content. Don't let people who are clearly motivated by a moralistic desire to control others hide behind BS pseudo-legal excuses.

1. Google do have a stuff called "SafeSearch"[1] to filter explicit contents, and they do have a DMCA-like system for processing violation reports from governments and legal entities. That is, Google is already cooperating.

2. Photoshop's sole function is to let people draw, so drawing a porn w/ Photoshop is 100% users' responsibility. In case of image generators, the AI itself has the capabilities to create NSFW contents. If you're talking about the interactive nature of "prompt", that logic also makes any adult games SFW - they are safe until the user clicks something.

[1]: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by yardstick »

p-e-w wrote: post #38
qdot76367 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah it’s just basic due diligence for releasing an open source app of this nature. Turning it off is a simple one line change, because everything is obviously named. This is not some high wall to scale. As someone that manages nsfw open source projects, this move seems fine to me. And actually kinda hilarious.

If what StableDiffusion did was ask the user something like "The prompt you entered may result in the generation of content some people find objectionable. Are you sure you want to proceed?", then I would buy your argument. As currently implemented (and the implementation took more work than a confirmation prompt would have!), it's an obvious attempt to control, rather than protect, users. They try their best to dres…

As currently implemented, it’s a hilarious Easter egg. I wouldn’t read too much into it.

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by universa1 »

switchers wrote: post #64

Slightly off tangent, has anyone got it running on an AMD card? Sad 6600xt Windows user reporting in :(

Not sure about the 6600, but there is a guide for Linux at least:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CgaHyA_n4&feature=emb_logo

And this is somehow relevant (possibly), as I kept the link open.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-docker/issues/38

Re: Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM

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Post by MattRix »

p-e-w wrote: post #38
qdot76367 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah it’s just basic due diligence for releasing an open source app of this nature. Turning it off is a simple one line change, because everything is obviously named. This is not some high wall to scale. As someone that manages nsfw open source projects, this move seems fine to me. And actually kinda hilarious.

If what StableDiffusion did was ask the user something like "The prompt you entered may result in the generation of content some people find objectionable. Are you sure you want to proceed?", then I would buy your argument. As currently implemented (and the implementation took more work than a confirmation prompt would have!), it's an obvious attempt to control, rather than protect, users. They try their best to dres…

They aren’t trying to “control” users, they’re trying to minimize the amount of bad press these AIs get. The approach they took was easier than your suggestion, because their system detects NSFW content on a per output image basis… so it’s easier to output some image (rickroll) rather than put up a prompt or even skip it completely (since they also generate a grid of the resulting images).

I should add that it’s also incredibly easy to comment it out.

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