Stable Diffusion Public Release

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 so, so, so exciting. Maybe the most exciting single release in AI since the invention of the GAN.

EDIT: I'm particularly interested in training a hypernetwork to translate natural language instructions into latent-space navigation instructions with the end goal of enabling me to give the model natural-language feedback on its generations. I've got some rough ideas but haven't totally mapped out my approach yet, if anyone can link me to similar projects I'd be very grateful.

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

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 disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;

> - To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;

> - To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;

> - For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;

> - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;

> - To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;

> - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;

> - To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;

> - To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).

How can you prove some of these in a court of law?

That license from top to bottom is distilled "tell me you don't know anything about art without telling me you don't know anything about art".

Interesting art challenges its audience. But even the most boring art will still offend some-- it's the nature of art that the viewer brings their own interpretation, and some people bring an offensive one.

Make sure your art isn't the wrong type of artistic!