Stability AI crashed and burned so fast it’s not even funny. Their talent is abandoning ship they’ve even been caught scraping images from Midjourney, which means they probably don’t have a proper dataset.
The model should be capable of much better than this, but they spent a long time censoring the model before release and this is what we got. It straight up forgot most human anatomy.
There’s a reason that artists in training often practice by drawing nudes, even if they don’t intend for that to be the main subject of their art. If you don’t know what’s going on under the clothing you’re going to have a hard time drawing humans in general.
Almost like the issues with repressing sex and nudity are harming the development of intelligence. Just like real life.
I was going to say this, their new architecture seems to be better than previous ones, they have more compute and I’m guessing, more data. The only explanation for this downgrade is that they tried to ban porn. I haven’t read online info about this at the time anyways, I’m just learning this recently
Honestly I think that it’s models like these that output things that could be called art.
Whenever a model is actually good, it just creates pretty pictures that would have otherwise been painted by a human, whereas this actually creates something unique and novel. Just like real art almost always ilicits some kind of emotion, so too do the products of models like these and I think that that’s much more interesting that having another generic AI postcard.
Not that I’m happy to see how much SD has fallen though.
It would be great if the model could produce this beautifully disfigured stuff when the user asked it to. But if it can’t follow the user’s prompts reasonably, then it’s pretty useless as a tool
I can see an argument for artists choosing to use chaotic processes they can’t really control.
Setting up a canvas and paints and brushes in a particular arrangement in the woods, and letting migratory animals and weather put their mark on the work, and then see what results. That could be art.
And if that can be art, then I guess chaotic, unpredictable AI models can output something that can be art, too.
I agree, bring on the weird, I don’t need accurate, I want hallucinated novelty. This is like people who treat LLM like a dictionary or search engine and complain about innaccuracy. They don’t understand this is to be expected of a synthetized answer.
Hallucinations is an essential part of the value these things bring.
Wow, the pile of limbs in the living room pic genuinely ceeeped me out.
“Biblically accurate models”
