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Andy Baio

Last 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. waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diff

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Andy Baio

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.

Andy Baio

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.)

Andy Baio

New DreamBooth models are popping up daily, targeting everything from K-pop singers and porn stars to Disney and
Kurzgesagt animations, raising thorny questions around copyright, fair use, personality rights, ethics, and consent. huggingface.co/sd-concepts-lib

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