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The original was posted on /r/stablediffusion by /u/Zugzwangier on 2024-08-31 23:02:36+00:00.
Be it AI images or GPT/Llama stuff or otherwise.
I'm no expert here, but it strikes me as pretty straightforward thing to set this up.
- There are all of these open source codebases to build on.
- The organizers can be disillusioned tech guys from the usual suspects, and they'd get to pay themselves healthy salaries while making their resumes look great
- The development process can (unlike e.g. video game development) be largely very transparent, so the risks of mismanagement and theft could be minimized. (I'm thinking probably the only thing that needs to be kept under wraps is the exact composition of training data, to avoid misguided IP lawsuits.)
- The GPU time ain't super cheap but based on estimates I've seen, it's certainly achievable with crowdfunding.
- Appealing to whale donors--i.e. the most important type of donor-- seems very easy: large donations allow you to have some say over some key concepts and training data (within reason.) Consider for moment the fact that many people dropped four or even five figures for exclusive Star Citizen DLC...
Or, if not a full, ground-up training, at least some major high-quality checkpoints or finetunes.
I mean, the demand is there. The fact that Flux is almost universally adored, despite its current limitations, surely speaks to the hunger for better products.
There will always be a lot of controversy about safety/bad press/etc. but that's gonna happen anyway--see the bill that California may be set to pass soon.
It's clear the anti-AI backlash is coming regardless of how carefully people tiptoe here.
...and I'm really starting to wonder if the best defense against this is to get the highest quality possible AI tools developed and out there in the wild ASAP. The best defense here might just be to reach the "nah, it's too late" point sooner rather than later.
If we wait too long, significant legal hurdles could easily pop up that would make this difficult or impossible.
This would be sort of a... "Unpause AI" crowdfunding project, if you will.
(For the record: I do have my own serious misgivings about AI's long term effects on society... but I think allowing corporations and governments to dictate the AI narrative and ecosystem is bound to be worse.)