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Who pays to use generators? The open ones are way more capable and interesting, generally.
by Filligree 3y ago
Who pays to use generators? The open ones are way more capable and interesting, generally.
- wokwokwok 3y agoIs that really your concern? Whether you pay for it? Let’s put it this way: paying for or not paying for stolen goods. Does it make any difference? Why is that remotely relevant? You want to argue “are the good stolen?” Sure. That’s a discussion we can have. Did you pay for them or not? Who cares?
- thfuran 3y agoThat's a terrible analogy. Until the scrapers start deleting all other copies of what what they're scraping, "stealing" the art in a traditional sense, there's no harm done in the process of training the network. Any harm done comes after that.
- jsheard 3y agoIsn't high-quality open image generation almost entirely dependent on Stability releasing their foundational models for free, at great expense to them? That's not something you'll be able to rely on long-term, there won't always be a firehose of venture capital money to subsidise that kind of charity.
- Filligree 3y agoThe cost of training them is going down, though. Given the existence of models like Pixart, I don’t think we’ll stay dependent on corporate charity for long.