disco-diffusion VS dalle-2-preview

Disco-diffusion, a framework like Stable, which came out about 13 months ago: https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion

Runner-ups are Craiyon (for being more "creative" than SD), Disco Diffusion, minDALL-E, and CLIP Guided Diffusion.

From the Disco Diffusion GitHub, "“A frankensteinian amalgamation of notebooks, models and techniques for the generation of AI Art and Animations.”

Google Colab is probably the easiest way to run DD. To find the most recent version go to the GitHub page and then open the link to the Colab. Initially, you'll probably just want to experiment with the prompts. But there's also Zippy's Disco Diffusion Cheatsheet v0.3 which can be a useful place to learn more.

You can probably port Disco Diffusion pretty easily. It’s available on Google Colab, so should be straightforward. Their GitHub is: https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion

https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoDiffusion/, https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion. As far as I'm aware the only way to use this is via Google Colab. Rather difficult to use because of this.

https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion,

We believe that many decisions about our defaults and hard bounds should be made collectively, and while practical implementation is a challenge, we aim to include as many perspectives as possible. As a starting point, we’ve sought external input on our technology in the form of red teaming. We also recently began soliciting public input on AI in education (one particularly important context in which our technology is being deployed).

From this OpenAI document:

It's also of note that you can't sell a game using this method, as Dalle-2's terms of service prevent use in commercial projects. It's hard to justify rate of return considering you can only ever give it away for free, and even in that case there are some uncertain legal elements regarding copyright and the images that are used to train the dataset.

On their GitHub https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-card.md I can only see references to v1.

"b) Exploration of the bolded part of OpenAI's comment "Each generated image includes a signature in the lower right corner, with the goal of indicating when DALL·E 2 helped generate a certain image." (source)." (source link: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...)

I feel the DALL-E 2 watermark signature could be a seed or something.

DALL-E's docs for example mention it can output whole copyrighted logos and characters[1] and understands it's possible to generate human faces that are bear the likeness of those in the training data. We've also seen people recently critique Stable Diffusion's output for attempting to recreate artists' signatures that came from the commercial trained data.

That said by a certain point the kinks will be ironed out and likely skirt around such issues by only incorporating/manipulating just enough to be considered fair use and creative transformation.

[1] "The model can generate known entities including trademarked logos and copyrighted characters." https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

Some types of content were purposely excluded from the training dataset(s) (source).