[ttul]

Stability has to make money somehow. By releasing an 8B parameter model, they’re encouraging people to use their paid API for inference. It’s not a terrible business decision. And hobbyists can play with the smaller models, which with some refining will probably be just fine for most non-professional use cases.

[jandrese]

I would LOL if they released the "safe" model for free but made you pay for the one with boobs.

[ttul]

Oh they’ll never let you pay for porn generation. But they will happily entertain having you pay for quality commercial images that are basically a replacement for the entire graphic design industry.

[ohthehugemanate]

It's not an easy fap, but I guess I'm watching people get f*cked either way.

[teaearlgraycold]

Don't people quantize SD down to 8 bits? I understand plenty of people don't have 8GB of VRAM (and I suppose you need some extra for supplemental data, so maybe 10GB?). But that's still well within the realm of consumer hardware capabilities.

[ttul]

I’m the wrong person to ask, but it seems Stability intends to offer models from 800M to 8B parameters in size, which offers something for everyone.