I believe you misunderstood my post. (Or I have misunderstood yours) I was not arguing that the models should not be released. I was pointing out that the statement that no harm has been done with them was false, and that even though that is the case it is probably better for society, on the whole, for them to be open.

We can both admit that the tools can and will be used for bad purposes, and come to the conclusion that their benefits outweigh the negatives. We would not be doing any favors to our own arguments by pretending otherwise.

Given OpenAI’s extreme restrictions on Dalle 2, can anybody point to any harm that has been done with Stable Diffusion in particular since it launched? Even a single instance. Because I have only seen strictly positive coverage of people having fun with it.

Personally I am strongly on the opinion of favoring openness, but since you asked, there was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xofxo3/a_j...

The hoax was pretty quickly debunked, as the attempt was pretty crude. The images were full of artifacts and the image sizes were all 512x512 squares (the default image size for Stable Diffusion) with no attempt made to crop it to more common aspect ratios. So in terms of harm "done" I guess it was pretty minor, but I'm still leaving it out here since it made big enough of a commotion to make it to nationwide news stories.

so, don't trust photos you see online? That was i learned as a student 15 years ago when Photoshop was adapted by the masses. Nothing changed, just the tools got even easier to use.

More like the "safety" and "harm" charade was crammed down our gullets at every turn either by stick or carrot.