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Yet another "open" model that isn't open. We shall see if they actually do release to the public. We keep seeing promises from various orgs but it never pans

Yet another "open" model that isn't open. We shall see if they actually do release to the public. We keep seeing promises from various orgs but it never pans out.

TulliusCicero 4y ago
Their plan seems less hand wavey, they're being explicit with "first we release it like this, then like that, then freely to everyone". You're right that they could always change their minds and that would suck, but so far they seem to be being up front.
- runnerup 4y ago
  Zero of their flagship models have been released AFAIK, e.g. the pre-DALLE model, CLIP, has not had weights for its ViT-H/16 model released from a paper 19 months ago. This was before DALL-E and way before DALL-E 2. Not that I think they need to. It’s just weird people defend them as being open just because they release crippled versions of their model.
  - TulliusCicero 4y ago
    They've said that they intend to release the model soon-ish for anyone to run on their own machine, with no censorship*. I don't think the other major players, like OpenAI, have committed to doing the same. * They're actually working on a filter right now, but IIRC it's an optional one, for when you don't want to accidentally generate NSFW output.
    - runnerup 4y ago
      I'm so sorry I thought the discussion was about OpenAI, I'm glad you clarified it was about StableDiffusion. Hope I didn't muddy the waters too much for others.
      - TulliusCicero 4y ago
        No biggie. You may be interested to know that the code for SD has already been released on Github, and they've given the weights to a bunch of researchers in preparation for full release. I've also heard that one of the researchers leaked the weights earlier today, and 4chan has been using them for, uh, stuff. https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
bloppe 4y ago
OpenAI should probably rebrand lol the "open" part is basically parody at this point
- colordrops 4y ago
  Agreed, and they are influencing others, like the company in this article, which is following their model of "opening" things.

Yet another "open" model that isn't open. We shall see if they actually do release to the public. We keep seeing promises from various orgs but it never pans out.

TulliusCicero 4y ago

Their plan seems less hand wavey, they're being explicit with "first we release it like this, then like that, then freely to everyone". You're right that they could always change their minds and that would suck, but so far they seem to be being up front.

runnerup 4y ago
Zero of their flagship models have been released AFAIK, e.g. the pre-DALLE model, CLIP, has not had weights for its ViT-H/16 model released from a paper 19 months ago. This was before DALL-E and way before DALL-E 2. Not that I think they need to. It’s just weird people defend them as being open just because they release crippled versions of their model.
- TulliusCicero 4y ago
  They've said that they intend to release the model soon-ish for anyone to run on their own machine, with no censorship*. I don't think the other major players, like OpenAI, have committed to doing the same. * They're actually working on a filter right now, but IIRC it's an optional one, for when you don't want to accidentally generate NSFW output.
  - runnerup 4y ago
    I'm so sorry I thought the discussion was about OpenAI, I'm glad you clarified it was about StableDiffusion. Hope I didn't muddy the waters too much for others.
    - TulliusCicero 4y ago
      No biggie. You may be interested to know that the code for SD has already been released on Github, and they've given the weights to a bunch of researchers in preparation for full release. I've also heard that one of the researchers leaked the weights earlier today, and 4chan has been using them for, uh, stuff. https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

bloppe 4y ago

OpenAI should probably rebrand lol the "open" part is basically parody at this point

colordrops 4y ago
Agreed, and they are influencing others, like the company in this article, which is following their model of "opening" things.