The Man behind Stable Diffusion

The guy's name is Emad Mostaque btw There's a recent video interview he did that goes into his vision: ▶ this video

in “Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU” · View on HN

Stable diffusion is good open source software and is well motivated in a very complicated technology/political space. Sure they inherit all of the existing problems with image datasets but they have some plans to mitigate racial and socio-political bias. The alternative is to either not do the project or make it secretive under the supposed motivation of safety. This interview is a good overview of the principles behind their approach: ▶ this video

in “Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out for public use and that's considered “OK”” · View on HN

I really enjoyed this interview [1] with Emad Mostaque who I gather is probably the key funding and organization player in that stuff. It remains to be seen exactly how "open" it winds up playing out over time, but they're talking a compelling game and the EleutherAI people seem to be pretty heavily involved, which you probably wouldn't do if you weren't serious. Yandex has also put up a ~100B language model [2]. My old colleagues at Meta have also started nibbling around the edges of opening some of this stuff up [3]. The Meta folks still aren't just handing out the big ones, but they're definitely moving the ball forward. In particular their release of the training logs is a really positive development IMHO as it opens the curtains a bit on the reality of training these things: it's a difficult, error/failure-prone process, there's a lot of trial-and-error, restarting from checkpoints, etc. Anything that puts downward pressure on the magical thinking is A-OK in my book. The reality of this stuff is exciting/impressive enough: there's no need to embellish or exaggerate. [1] ▶ this video [2] [link] [3] [link]

in “Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism” · View on HN

Interview 7mo ago w/CEO of StabilityAI. ▶ this video Not too surprised about funding issues from the casual answer. I’m not saying it was bad to self fund a project, but having to choosing between your life and fun (and potentially very profitable) projects is not easy.

in “The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under” · View on HN

Yep, here’s interview with the founder of Stable AI, which includes their intent to release Stable Diffusion and be more open than OpenAI: ▶ this video

in “I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E” · View on HN

Y/ou can't comment unless you pay to subscribe.. lol - isn't that a company blog post? Anyways.. this shit grinds me.. yet another "open source" AI proejct pretending to be fo rthe people.. finally get a massive valuation and now it's all "we must be security concious".. Hypocrtyes and here is an interview with the founder of Stable Diffusion stating the exact opposite approach by "having faith in people"! ▶ this video

in “Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly” · View on HN