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Just yesterday I read another comment on HN saying we will have to wait another decade before being able train it in someone "basement"( https://news.ycombinato
by dekervin 4y ago
Just yesterday I read another comment on HN saying we will have to wait another decade before being able train it in someone "basement"( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32658941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32658941 ).
I made a bookmark for myself ( https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=quest_20220831_130509_316303 https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=q... ) to look for data that help estimate when it will be feasible to run Stable Diffusion "at home". I guess it's already outdated!
- zone411 4y agoUmm training is not the same as running it.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoTo run stable diffusion at home you have to download the model file, which took the equivalent of tens of thousands of hours spread across cloud provided GPUs. If the model file just vanished from everyone's hard drive one day, and cloud providers installed heuristics to detect and ban image dataset training, retraining the model file would actually take decades for any consumer, even an enthusiast with a dozen powerful GPUs. The image dataset alone is 240TB.
- dannyw 4y agoYou forget how much mark-up cloud providers charge. I trained StyleGAN 2 from scratch using 8x 3090s at home and it took 3 months. It's fine. 240TB is small fish, my homelab is a petabyte and I consider it small.