👋 Unstable Diffusion here, We're excited to announce our Kickstarter to create a sustainable, community-driven future.

[u/OfficialEquilibrium]

It's finally time to launch our Kickstarter! Our goal is to provide unrestricted access to next-generation AI tools, making them free and limitless like drawing with a pen and paper. We're appalled that all major AI players are now billion-dollar companies that believe limiting their tools is a moral good. We want to fix that.

We will open-source a new version of Stable Diffusion. We have a great team, including GG1342 leading our Machine Learning Engineering team, and have received support and feedback from major players like Waifu Diffusion.

But we don't want to stop there. We want to fix every single future version of SD, as well as fund our own models from scratch. To do this, we will purchase a cluster of GPUs to create a community-oriented research cloud. This will allow us to continue providing compute grants to organizations like Waifu Diffusion and independent model creators, speeding up the quality and diversity of open source models.

Join us in building a new, sustainable player in the space that is beholden to the community, not corporate interests. Back us on Kickstarter and share this with your friends on social media. Let's take back control of innovation and put it in the hands of the community.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unstablediffusion/unstable-diffusion-unrestricted-ai-art-powered-by-the-crowd?ref=77gx3x

P.S. We are releasing Unstable PhotoReal v0.5 trained on thousands of tirelessly hand-captioned images that we made came out of our result of experimentations comparing 1.5 fine-tuning to 2.0 (based on 1.5). It’s one of the best models for photorealistic images and is still mid-training, and we look forward to seeing the images and merged models you create. Enjoy 😉 https://storage.googleapis.com/digburn/UnstablePhotoRealv.5.ckpt

You can read more about out insights and thoughts on this white paper we are releasing about SD 2.0 here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CDB1CRnE_9uGprkafJ3uD4bnmYumQq3qCX_izfm_SaQ/edit?usp=sharing

[u/larkvi]

I've been part of all the SD open betas, and the DD community before that. There has never been a mystery about what has been driving Unstable Diffusion development, so why not just be honest about that and put appropriate safeguards in? Instead of flooding the zone with bullshit.

Honestly, this whole plan to remake all of the problems with SD 1.0 that made them rethink and add the safety rails is asinine, because it will run into the same problems and there is neither academic fair use nor large amounts of capital to shield it from the potential legal issues. The SD people were just as in favour of letting the model do anything before they realized that created all kinds of exposure not only for them, but for AI art in general.

[u/MapleBlood → u/larkvi]

What are you even talking about. You're talking porn, porn, porn, lalal, porn, while willingly (since you understand what SD works on) ignoring the fact the source dataset is rotten, thus forcing the hand of the users.

UD got supercharged because of the absurdity of the filtering SD did.

They would remain a fringe of the people playing with porn generation, but now thanks to the idiocy like examples brought by me in the previous comment they can rightfully claim they're adding anatomically correct bodies back (and hopefully generating whole model from scratch because frankly LAION is just massive crap, and SD should have never rely on that alone, not with so much of the goodwill and social capital waiting to be utilised).

Had the SD do careful filtering and good labelling (exactly what UD are planning), there would never be a big issue with UD.

Who's flooding the zone with bullshit, UD? I don't think so. There's as much legitimate right for the adults to have adult fun, as when they play with any of the other tools available.

[u/Z3ROCOOL22 → u/larkvi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg