Gregory's ServerLast week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustrator, sparking a debate about the ethics of reproducing a living artist's style. I talked to that artist to see how she felt about it, and the person who made it. https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/
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DreamBooth allows you to introduce new subjects or styles to Stable Diffusion, with leaps in speed and usability happening weekly. I was able to train an AI on my own face in about 20 minutes on Google Colab. It cost me about $0.20. (You can also do it for free, but it's slower.) New DreamBooth models are popping up daily, targeting everything from K-pop singers and porn stars to Disney and |
The Redditor used a technique developed by Google called DreamBooth, reimplemented for Stable Diffusion, using only 32 illustrations from the artist. Training took 2.5 hours of cloud GPU time at a cost of under $2. He then released the finetuned model for everyone to use.