Re:Some notes on the Stable Diffusion safety filter
by calebkaiser on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:18PM
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I would recommend looking more closely at the article.
Stability.ai, the company who developed and released the model being discussed, have not added a safety filter to the model. As the article points out, the filter is specifically implemented by HuggingFace's Diffusers library, which is a popular library for working with diffusion models (but again, to be clear, not the only option for using Stable Diffusion). The library is also open source, and turning off the safety filter would be trivial if you felt compelled to do so.
So, "these tech companies" aren't overcome by glee over censoring you. One company implemented one filter in one open source and easily editable library.
Stability.ai, the company who developed and released the model being discussed, have not added a safety filter to the model. As the article points out, the filter is specifically implemented by HuggingFace's Diffusers library, which is a popular library for working with diffusion models (but again, to be clear, not the only option for using Stable Diffusion). The library is also open source, and turning off the safety filter would be trivial if you felt compelled to do so.
So, "these tech companies" aren't overcome by glee over censoring you. One company implemented one filter in one open source and easily editable library.