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Stable Diffusion isn’t free if you include the cost of the machine. Maybe you already have the hardware for some other reason, though? To compare total cost of
by skybrian 4y ago
Stable Diffusion isn’t free if you include the cost of the machine. Maybe you already have the hardware for some other reason, though?
To compare total cost of ownership for a business, you need to compare using someone else’s service to running a similar service yourself. There’s no particular reason to assume OpenAI can’t do better at running a cloud service.
Maybe someday you can assume end users have the hardware to run this client side, but for now that would limit your audience.
- novaRom 4y agoEver heard about Federated Learning? This is the way it goes. Also, I do run training with no matrix multiplication, just 3-bit weights, addition in log space, slight accuracy degradation, but much faster CPU only training.
- skybrian 4y agoOkay but I meant generating results, not training. If you're running Stable Diffusion, the weights are given, but it's not going to run on a random PC.