[skerit]

> I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc.

Exactly. These companies are probably hoping the artists win as many legal battles as they can, since the result will be that only big companies will be able to create useful AI models.

[TAForObvReasons]

Creators with decent-sized portfolios will just train their own models.

> He told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2.

This is a SaaS waiting to happen.

https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwillin... This was on the front page last year.

[mattnewton]

That’s for a fine-tune of an existing SD model that has already trained on a mountain of data. Training from scratch requires a mountain of image data and a lot more compute, so you would need a 100% clean base model as well, but then yes it’s totally doable.

[michaelmior]

There are a couple existing pretrained SD models that use all CC0/public domain data. I think at this point they're still significantly lower quality than other popular models, but I'm sure that will improve over time.