> I do feel that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.
I mean this isn't even speculative anymore after what happened with - hilariously named - OpenAI
I think the reason for closed openai is profit, not ethics.
Oh, absolutely. But the reason given as an excuse was still ethics.
What about future models with fewer artifacts that are much easier to communicate with and better at generation? Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models. And don't forget this affects 3D, video snippets and music going forward.
> that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.
Yes, weaponized ethics as sleight of hand for control is a common historical pattern.
"Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models."
This is exactly why I pay $30 per month for MidJourney. The output is just phenomenally better than most of the images coming out of SD, and the UI is much better as well. It's just not worth my time fiddling with SD if the results are so bad in comparison.
If/when SD catches up, I'd jump ship to using it in a heartbeat.
Because it's already good enough to have made it's way into many of my workflows.
I do feel that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.