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StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5

81 points by s-gonzales 14 hours ago | 89 comments

ilaksh 12 hours ago

This model seems to be largely uncensored, at least compared to previous releases. For example, it is surprisingly familiar with the physics of interactions between human skin and yogurt. According to a friend who was testing it on replicate.com. I would never prompt for something like that of course.

pheatherlite 11 hours ago

... go on..

Lockal 46 minutes ago

This is truly horrendous, some people say that it can generate a woman lying in the grass!

mvandermeulen 11 hours ago

Yes, please continue. What else did your friend tell you?

Kovah 13 hours ago

It's offtopic, but I hate articles which talk about a very specific thing and put dozens of links into the text, but none links to the actual product or company.

mdaniel 6 hours ago

The stuff: https://github.com/Stability-AI/sd3.5#stable-diffusion-35

Also relevant: https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/sd3-5.md

renewiltord 12 hours ago

That's to reduce bounce rate and keep you on the page for the ads. Notice that all the hyperlinks are same domain. Yes, it's annoying.

leshokunin 13 hours ago

I noticed the last few months that in several subreddits that have nothing to do with tech, the sentiment had shifted very negatively regarding AI art. Some subs straight up ban those images. No reason given.

It seems the mainstream view is grounded in anxiety and dislike for tech. This isn’t shared by my friends who enjoy tech at all.

Have others here been experiencing this?

vunderba 12 hours ago

Ongoing copyright issues notwithstanding, it's because 99% of the mainstream usage of generative art, generative music, generative LLMs is noise. And sure, noise existed before but things like Suno and Midjourney amplify the issue by an exponential factor.

It crowds out the people who genuinely devote thought, skill and time into their creations.

blargey 8 hours ago

The closest corollary in programming may be AI-generated pull requests on github.

Trying to pad a resume with open source "contributions" and trying to pad a Patreon with "fanart" are behaviors that come from the same headspace, I think.

jsheard 12 hours ago

Particularly on platforms like Reddit, to OPs point about the sentiment on there, because they're so prone to being overwhelmed by low quality AI content if it's not kept under control (which usually means the subreddit banning AI posts with no exceptions). Ranking systems like Reddits require user engagement to work, and most users don't want to engage with a never-ending firehose of MidJourney slop to the extent required to separate the signal from the noise.

notahacker 12 hours ago

The tendency for people to spam AI images in contexts devoted to sharing images of real stuff is particularly irritating.

jsheard 11 hours ago

Yep, subreddits like /r/cosplay had to add rules strictly banning AI images despite it being blatantly obvious that they're against the whole point of the sub. People spam AI anyway unless the moderators intervene to delete it and ban repeat offenders.

Workaccount2 12 hours ago

Art has been an extremely saturated field even before transformers showed up.

TiredOfLife 10 hours ago

So AI art has reached Jazz stage.

Havoc 12 hours ago

>sentiment had shifted very negatively regarding AI art.

See the drama around the baby peacock search. The results were not only AI filled but objectively entirely wrong. I'd link you to said drama but I literally can't find it because search is just picking up an echo chamber of AI. Which in a way is pretty meta commentary in itself.

I appreciate the ability to generate images of whatever I want. I don't like the way it's messing with perception of reality in a world which we view largely through screens.

>dislike for tech. This isn’t shared by my friends who enjoy tech at all.

Are they in tech or in the creative space. People I know in creative spaces are anxious while those in the tech space tend to be mixed (doomer vs AI utopia split)

MattRix 11 hours ago

The vast majority of people I know who dislike AI art (including myself) are people who love tech, but hate how this tech has been trained on the art of human artists without credit or compensation… and then on top of that it’s being used to replace those artists and reduce their job prospects! It’s easy to see why this sucks if you take a step back.

dmarcos 10 hours ago

AI art is just art. Most is bad (same as without AI). AI is just another tool in the toolbox. Shared link below in a different comment. My fav video series that heavily uses AI (images, video, lip sync, sound). I enjoy it and I think it has artistic merit

https://x.com/dmarcos/status/1848835003079397646

Even with AI, one needs talent and skill to create something noteworthy. Just the standard of what’s compelling will change. I think people capable to adapt to the new tech will do fine creatively and financially.

Incipient 6 hours ago

>AI art is just art

Not necessarily. You need to define "art" and most likely "creativity". As you have said AI is a tool, I assume you're not anthropomorphising the model itself as an artistic being.

So it's down to creativity/skill. I would say someone saying "create me an image of a person on a lake" has no creativity/skill at all. It may be an image, or a drawing, but it's not art. In the same way I can draw a stick person - it's a drawing without creativity/skill, so it's just a drawing, not art.

dmarcos 5 hours ago

To make the most of AI tools you need to understand how they work. Just prompting to me is just like using clipart or stock images. For interesting stuff people are doing search for ComfyUI tutorials on YouTube. It's a skill as like in any other digital art tool.

Workaccount2 12 hours ago

Publications have had a very negative tilt since GPT4 showed up. It's no surprise since LLM's are clearly an existential threat to them.

Transformers are also a very real existential threat to artists, as the vast majority can only ever have a decent career "working for the man", which is ultimately run by business people who could care less about AI generated material if it dramatically reduces cost while being effectively identical.

xnx 12 hours ago

Does Stable Diffusion 3.5 make Stable Diffusion 3 obsolete?

There are quite a few different versions (SD1.5, XL, XL Turbo, SD3) of Stable Diffusion still in use because the newer ones didn't definitively supersede previous versions.