Isn'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.
The 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.
That'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.
Isn'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.
The 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.
Is 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?
That'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.