Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
I'm not a data hoarder, but from the moment Stable Diffusion was released I had a gut feeling that I should download everything available while it's there.<p>Somewhat similar gut feeling to when popcorn time was released, although it might not be exactly the same.<p>While I really wish I'm wrong, my gut tells me that broadly trained machine learning models available to the general public won't last and that intellectual property hawks are going to one day cancel and remove these models and code from all convenient access channels.<p>That somehow international legislation will converge on the strictest possible interpretation of intellectual property, and those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material.<p>So reminder to everyone: Download! Get it and use it before they try to close the Stable doors after the horses Diffused. Do not be fooled by the illusion that just because it's open source it will be there forever! Popcorn time lost a similar battle.<p>Get it now when there are trustworthy sources. Once these kinds of things go underground, it gets much harder to get a trustworthy version.