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I don’t know about this take. Remember all of the shitstorms that the NYT et. al. kicked up over biased/racist/sexist AI? Remember Tay? I think if you are Goog

I don’t know about this take. Remember all of the shitstorms that the NYT et. al. kicked up over biased/racist/sexist AI? Remember Tay? I think if you are Google, you are terrified of the bad PR from someone generating something questionable. And that bad article is inevitable if you open up these models. (See, pornpen.ai being released approximately five minutes after StableDiffusion. Imagine the press if that was built from the mode Google published.) An open source community is a diffuse target, so the NYT won’t go after them as quickly, and let's be honest, their axe to grind is with big tech, not a bunch of AI hackers.

i_like_apis 4y ago
It’s better for them to not say anything about it when they don’t release the model. This is what Meta has done for the same technology and I respect that. They don’t imply any ridiculous idea that such models should or even can be “racially balanced”. But if they want to cover their butts from the possibility of silly controversy, I think that’s cowardly and unnecessary, but at least they could not go out of their way to imply that such controversy should be taken seriously.