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What's the dataset? How commercially viable/legally questionable is it? This is critical, for legality of use, ethics concerns, and the quality of the output (
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
What's the dataset? How commercially viable/legally questionable is it?
This is critical, for legality of use, ethics concerns, and the quality of the output (as overly zealous filtering can degrade the model like it did for SD 2.0).
- xigency 3y agoIf I recall correctly, Stability AI’s process to skirt copyright is to have the training data compiled and model weights trained by a third-party university. Educational research institutions have more lax requirements around copyright. That may or may not be a legitimate way to work under existing laws, but doesn’t tell us much about what the moral/ethical/legal considerations should be, which seems like an open question.
- pmayrgundter 3y agoThat sounds more like their story for SD 1.5 last year. I think there was some kerfuffle between Stability.ai and Runway.ai/Heidelberg Uni (see the Forbes article; won't link as I'm unclear on the veracity), who they were working with, and they may have parted ways by their first indie work on SD 2.x around the holidays. Either way, the Uni connection story may be old.
- homarp 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185891 discusses the Forbes article
- homarp 3y agoand I guess you can add https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/stability-ai-head-of-research-resigns-from-startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/stability... now