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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by lacker »

cercatrova wrote: post #6

I've been looking forward to this. The license however strikes me as too aspirational, and it may be hard to enforce legally: > You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model: > - In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation; > - For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way; > - To generate or dissem…

The license does seem impossibly vague and broad. Usually what happens when software projects use custom & demanding licenses like this is that large companies refuse to allow the software to be used because of the legal uncertainty, small companies just use it and ignore the licensing constraints, and there are never any lawsuits that clarify anything one way or another. If that's fine with the authors of the project, they can just leave the license vague and unclear forever.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by OmarIsmail »

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…

We do a decent job of banning child pornography.

And bringing the two ideas together, is child pornography that is provably created by an AI still illegal?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by suby »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #55
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 "r…

There will be a huge and unkillable market for non-AI generated pornography, even if people cannot tell the difference in an AB test. The demand will be too strong and I don't think there will be much outcry to ban it if it's all consenting adults.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

criddell wrote: post #54
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?

You'll need a GPU. One with a LOT of RAM, like an RTX 3090, which has 24 GB.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by grandmczeb »

egypturnash wrote: post #41
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…

It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.

Depends on your perspective I guess. The visual artists I know are super excited about AI art.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by squeaky-clean »

egypturnash wrote: post #41
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…

It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.

I have a friend who works as an artist and he's excited and nervous about this. But also he's trying to learn how to use these well. If you try these AI out, there's definitely an art to writing good prompts that gets what you actually want. Hopefully these AI will become just another brush in the artist's palette rather than a replacement.

I hope these end up similar to the relationship between Google and programming. We all know the jokes about "I don't really know how to code, I just know how to Google things". But using a search engine efficiently is a very real skill with a large gap between those who know how and those who don't.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by Fauntleroy »

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…

If we get to the point where we can't tell AI generated images from reality, I'm not sure "body shaming" will be on society's collective radar anymore.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by quadcore »

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.

Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet :)

Those models are trained on artists work and put those same artists out of work. When people will register I dont think this is gonna fly.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by hedora »

laverya wrote: post #23
fluidcruft wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like the sort of things you would require so that HuggingFace doesn't get roped in as defendants in lawsuits related to things that others do with the code. So if for example someone builds something that generates medical advice and gets sued for violating FDA requirements or damages or whatever then HuggingFace can say that was not something they allowed in the first place.

Yeah it really reads like "we know people are going to do nasty things with this; we can't prevent that; please don't sue us over it" to me

They really should have used blanket liability waiver text and left it at that.

I’m sure someone will find a way to sue them anyway. It doesn’t even call out using this to create derivative works to avoid paying original authors copyright fees.

On top of that, their logo is an obvious rip off of a Van Gogh. It seems clear they’re actively encouraging people to create similar works that infringe active copyrights. They should ask Kim Dotcom how that worked out for him.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by hedora »

criddell wrote: post #54
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?

I’d rent a cloud vm with a beefy gpu from paperspace or a similar company. It’ll run about $20 per month for casual use.
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