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…but we release our stuff open source and are one of the largest supporters of open source AI out there from funding https://github.com/lucidrains https://githu

by emadm 3y ago

…but we release our stuff open source and are one of the largest supporters of open source AI out there from funding https://github.com/lucidrains https://github.com/lucidrains to compute grants for awesome stuff like OpenFlamingo 2 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1674157859284697089 https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1674157859284697089 This is highly efficient allocation as the code and models can be used widely Nobody else is really doing this I do wonder at times if folk want us to stop

Kerbonut 3y ago
Never stop doing stuff.
gettodachoppa 3y ago
>Nobody else is really doing this I do wonder at times if folk want us to stop Please don't. You're doing humanity a service. AFAIK you're the only AI company who released something of this magnitude for free, without any restrictions. The people who want you to stop are: 1. Bitter artists who see their livelyhood endangered and lash out at the most prominent example. We can sympathize but this isn't your fault, this was going to happen anyway. At least you democratized it. 2. People upset in general that some tech companies will be getting rich off AI while the rest of us get poorer, lose jobs, etc. You get the brunt of the hate because your free tools are usable by the average person, and therefore more people are exposed to it. They don't realize that if SD never existed, the only thing that would change is that this technology would still exist, except we'd all be paying some OpenAI-like company a monthly fee to use it. 3. Big NGO. Their raison d'etre is fighting against something, no matter what, because this is how they get donations/attention, which pays for the salaries of the trust fund kids who work at those places. Apparently if someone generates an image of a naked kid using SD, I'm supposed to care as if it was actual child abuse material? Somehow we don't extend that logic to the manufacturers of pen and paper which allow that same person to draw or write their disgusting fantasies. 4. Clueless people who fall for the propaganda from the least ethical members of the previous groups. 5. SD fans upset that you bent to the pressure from NGOs and Twittards and kneecaped SD in your rush to remove copyrighted art from the training data. Newer versions are objectively inferior from an end-user's perspective and deep down you know it, because you see what enthusiasts are using on /r/stablediffusion. But I don't hold this against you, even if it's disappointing. We will always have SD 1.5, which remains the best way for normal people (ie not rich VC corps) to do text-to-image. If you do nothing else for the rest of your life, you will be celebrated for this. Stay up, playa'!

by emadm 3y ago

Kerbonut 3y ago

Never stop doing stuff.

gettodachoppa 3y ago

>Nobody else is really doing this I do wonder at times if folk want us to stop Please don't. You're doing humanity a service. AFAIK you're the only AI company who released something of this magnitude for free, without any restrictions. The people who want you to stop are: 1. Bitter artists who see their livelyhood endangered and lash out at the most prominent example. We can sympathize but this isn't your fault, this was going to happen anyway. At least you democratized it. 2. People upset in general that some tech companies will be getting rich off AI while the rest of us get poorer, lose jobs, etc. You get the brunt of the hate because your free tools are usable by the average person, and therefore more people are exposed to it. They don't realize that if SD never existed, the only thing that would change is that this technology would still exist, except we'd all be paying some OpenAI-like company a monthly fee to use it. 3. Big NGO. Their raison d'etre is fighting against something, no matter what, because this is how they get donations/attention, which pays for the salaries of the trust fund kids who work at those places. Apparently if someone generates an image of a naked kid using SD, I'm supposed to care as if it was actual child abuse material? Somehow we don't extend that logic to the manufacturers of pen and paper which allow that same person to draw or write their disgusting fantasies. 4. Clueless people who fall for the propaganda from the least ethical members of the previous groups. 5. SD fans upset that you bent to the pressure from NGOs and Twittards and kneecaped SD in your rush to remove copyrighted art from the training data. Newer versions are objectively inferior from an end-user's perspective and deep down you know it, because you see what enthusiasts are using on /r/stablediffusion. But I don't hold this against you, even if it's disappointing. We will always have SD 1.5, which remains the best way for normal people (ie not rich VC corps) to do text-to-image. If you do nothing else for the rest of your life, you will be celebrated for this. Stay up, playa'!