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To 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.
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
To 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.