Let me guess: The CEO and the other high figures in that company made bank with VC money and are now moving on with their hoards?
“Stability AI” is not stable, “OpenAI” is not open. These people got a weird sense for naming.
I’d prefer Stability AI to continue its existence instead of OpenAI.
Emad is shrugging it all off, huh? I hope he’s being sincere, I like the work stability is doing.
Can someone explain to me how these AIs work?
Specifically: Is it possible to just take a USB drive, download the program, and upload it somewhere else so that everyone can torrent the AI? How big is it? Even if it’s really big, there has to be a way to copy these things for free, right?
The model? Yes You can do that. You can even do something like torrents on the inference via the ai horde
Why torrent it? The models are readily available for download on civitai and huggingface. The software to use the models are open source, like automatic1111 and comfyUI.
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Stability AI publishes their models openly. You’re allowed to download them and execute them on your own computer. And noone can take that from us. But if they cease to exist, their competition will become better and advance further into the age of AI, while we’re stuck with the current models that will be old and vastly inferior to anything that will come in the next few years.
So yes, you can torrent this, I think you’re also allowed to do it. But in 3 years this will be like usung a computer from the 2000s. Everyone else will have moved on to more capable tools and you’re left behind. That is if nobody steps in and continues their work. Or we need to switch to DallE and use OpenAI’s closed models and make do with whatever they provide us with.
Which AIs? Stable diffusion is already open source, and the model files are free to download from various places and are usually between 2 and 10GB. Llama checkpoints are a bit bigger, but the biggest Llama 2 file is still only 128GB I think.
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