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Google Colab has started banning Stable Diffusion WebUI users

21 points by apetresc 4y ago

m3drano 4y ago
This response seems relevant IMO,: https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505 https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505
andsoitis 4y ago
Reason: "We prioritize interactive notebook compute for free of charge tier users; the stable diffusion webUI usage got super big; we can't support the usage growth on our team's budget."
- brucethemoose2 4y ago
  Thats a very reasonable explanation. But NSFW content is quite popular among the SD userbase, so I wonder if thats a factor?
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counttheforks 4y ago
Are they banning Google accounts for this? Not sure why I got downvoted from this. The link shows the message: > You may be executing code that is disallowed, ant his may restrict your ability to use Colab in the future. Is this restricted because your google account gets deactivated or something more reasonable?
- rurp 4y ago
  It's a fair question. Google has certainly nuked entire accounts for minor violations in the past.
jsnell 4y ago
A four-word tweet with no context doesn't seem like the optimal submission. The Reddit thread seems better: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is_colab_going_to_start_banning_people_who_use_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is... In particular, this appears to be just about the free tier.
jygvdevbhc 4y ago
i have no idea what any of this means
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e63f67dd-065b 4y ago
Headline is misleading, Google hasn't banned anybody, just restricting free tiers from running a particular distribution of Stable Diffusion on Colab. I've always been amazed that Colab just hands out GPU compute for free to anybody that wants one. Obviously if you hand out free stuff that's expensive elsewhere (vast.ai charges at least 10cents/hr for a K80, colab runs for 12hrs, that's $1.2 in value to every free tier user) then they're gonna use it, so restrictions only make sense.
- brucethemoose2 4y ago
  Not to speak of the free TPUs! They're crazy powerful, if you can get something to run on them... which is especially tricky now since the free TPUs are "old" TPUs and incompatible with the framework GCS TPU instances use.
nickthegreek 4y ago
*Free users. Paid users are fine according to Chris Perry (Colab Product Lead)

21 points by apetresc 4y ago

This response seems relevant IMO,: https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505 https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505

andsoitis 4y ago

Reason: "We prioritize interactive notebook compute for free of charge tier users; the stable diffusion webUI usage got super big; we can't support the usage growth on our team's budget."

brucethemoose2 4y ago
Thats a very reasonable explanation. But NSFW content is quite popular among the SD userbase, so I wonder if thats a factor?

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counttheforks 4y ago

Are they banning Google accounts for this? Not sure why I got downvoted from this. The link shows the message: > You may be executing code that is disallowed, ant his may restrict your ability to use Colab in the future. Is this restricted because your google account gets deactivated or something more reasonable?

rurp 4y ago
It's a fair question. Google has certainly nuked entire accounts for minor violations in the past.

jsnell 4y ago

A four-word tweet with no context doesn't seem like the optimal submission. The Reddit thread seems better: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is_colab_going_to_start_banning_people_who_use_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is... In particular, this appears to be just about the free tier.

jygvdevbhc 4y ago

i have no idea what any of this means

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e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

Headline is misleading, Google hasn't banned anybody, just restricting free tiers from running a particular distribution of Stable Diffusion on Colab. I've always been amazed that Colab just hands out GPU compute for free to anybody that wants one. Obviously if you hand out free stuff that's expensive elsewhere (vast.ai charges at least 10cents/hr for a K80, colab runs for 12hrs, that's $1.2 in value to every free tier user) then they're gonna use it, so restrictions only make sense.

brucethemoose2 4y ago
Not to speak of the free TPUs! They're crazy powerful, if you can get something to run on them... which is especially tricky now since the free TPUs are "old" TPUs and incompatible with the framework GCS TPU instances use.

nickthegreek 4y ago

*Free users. Paid users are fine according to Chris Perry (Colab Product Lead)