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> What's the point of downloading it when it'd just stagnate? Because it's already good enough to have made it's way into many of my workflows. I do feel that

> What's the point of downloading it when it'd just stagnate? Because it's already good enough to have made it's way into many of my workflows. I do feel that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.

lvncelot 4y ago
> I do feel that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open. I mean this isn't even speculative anymore after what happened with - hilariously named - OpenAI
- prepend 4y ago
  I think the reason for closed openai is profit, not ethics.
  - lvncelot 4y ago
    Oh, absolutely. But the reason given as an excuse was still ethics.
Vetch 4y ago
What about future models with fewer artifacts that are much easier to communicate with and better at generation? Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models. And don't forget this affects 3D, video snippets and music going forward. > that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open. Yes, weaponized ethics as sleight of hand for control is a common historical pattern.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  "Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models." This is exactly why I pay $30 per month for MidJourney. The output is just phenomenally better than most of the images coming out of SD, and the UI is much better as well. It's just not worth my time fiddling with SD if the results are so bad in comparison. If/when SD catches up, I'd jump ship to using it in a heartbeat.
  - GaggiX 4y ago
    Midjourney is using Stable Diffusion in their pipeline.