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Stability has to make money somehow. By releasing an 8B parameter model, they’re encouraging people to use their paid API for inference. It’s not a terrible bus
by ttul 3y ago
Stability has to make money somehow. By releasing an 8B parameter model, they’re encouraging people to use their paid API for inference. It’s not a terrible business decision. And hobbyists can play with the smaller models, which with some refining will probably be just fine for most non-professional use cases.
- jandrese 3y agoI would LOL if they released the "safe" model for free but made you pay for the one with boobs.
- ttul 3y agoOh they’ll never let you pay for porn generation. But they will happily entertain having you pay for quality commercial images that are basically a replacement for the entire graphic design industry.
- ohthehugemanate 3y agoIt's not an easy fap, but I guess I'm watching people get f*cked either way.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoDon't people quantize SD down to 8 bits? I understand plenty of people don't have 8GB of VRAM (and I suppose you need some extra for supplemental data, so maybe 10GB?). But that's still well within the realm of consumer hardware capabilities.
- ttul 3y agoI’m the wrong person to ask, but it seems Stability intends to offer models from 800M to 8B parameters in size, which offers something for everyone.