https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
Here's the issue discussing it:
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu...
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
This has “kickstarter bans Unstable Diffusion” vibes.
Can anyone cite the relevant TOS section? It’d be good to know how far they’re trying to extend the moderation umbrella.
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...
Now on the other hand this wasn't actually pornographic content, it was links to pornographic content and their TOS doesn't really make it clear that linking is not allowed.
A frequent discovery of mine is a new foothill of the mountains of spam text dumped onto GitHub. No idea what half of it is there for since it’s not even connected to a GitHub pages setup most of the time. Usually I’ll find them a few pages back for a code search where the spellchecker has helpfully ignored pluralisation and punctuation and I’m getting lots of generic results but for a long enough string of words to narrow down GitHub to the long tail of noise…
Lots of txt and markdown and html and textish formats filled with keywords and phrases, some of which are surprisingly suggestive, arguably outright pornography…
Oh and there’s the matter of all the code on GitHub related to adult websites and the pornography that they contain, heaps of web scraping scripts to harvest videos and pictures from “tube websites” … the flip side of the coin as well, the content moderation tools like perceptual hashing tools and ML models for adult content or nudity detection that need to include sample images as part of testing and training data…
This feels like an area GitHub really shouldn’t be fucking with with respect to the whole “what counts as acceptable”, it’s one thing to prevent people using GitHub to host a free porn site via GitHub pages, it’s another to start policing the definition of acceptable discourse on the topic of adult content and machine learning models, particularly given that machine learning is a highly technical topic and the state of the art is an evolving field full of deeply technical people.
I’m deeply unimpressed by the results from stable diffusion but I do see other people having success with it. For me even the most basic things seem to come out mutated and the same efforts to improve non pornography related human depictions from stable diffusion type models will also be applicable to porn … if the hands on my “18th century porcelain doll of a cowboy“ look like some kind of teratogenic mutant out of a bad hyper realistic cartoon, then the porn version can’t be much better and while rule 34 exists the majority of “pornography consumers” looking to ML model based content probably don’t want that either which leads to a sort of “dual use technology” style stand off between the “pornography” and “non-pornography” uses of the exact same technology.
GitHub are walking a thin line here and it’s not going to get easier for them.
* "WhiteOnly" Rimworld mod that removes all non-whites; "PeacefulProtests" mod "narrated by George Floyd"; "BlackOnly" mod that purportedly just disables technological progression, though this claim appears to be unverified; exclusively black or black-painting artists in data set labeled with "n" + almost no other single-letters in use besides another possible euphemism, which when asked about gave a reply of "no comment"; long-time 4channer and /g/ poster (in recent years /g/ has become increasingly far-right; certainly not all /g/ posters are, but in combination with those other factors it may be relevant)
This was in response to an already existing mod which removed all white people, which was deemed totally fine. AUTO1111 also made a all black MOD later, which you mentioned.
>"BlacksOnly" mod that purportedly just disables technological progression
This is false: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103vsm2/we...
All it did was lock the available skintones.
>/g/ has become increasingly far-right
Any data to back this up with ? And how can you even know that AUTO1111 is active on /g/ ? It's anonymous.
[1]https://steamcommunity.com/id/no-sry (click the little down-arrow next to their name)
The n identifier could be used as a way to negate this problem or to provide evidence to the contrary of the dominant narrative of the incredibly powerful.
When viewed as a whole, everything seems to be done to provide a counter to power. Which is also a function of truly open AI.
When all pink is okay and all purple is not, you have a seriously color-based prejudice on your hands. Anyone arguing to the contrary would be wearing a white outfit going on about power in a different time.
That all is not to say that I would agree with a GitHub suspension; just that the author seems to be of questionable character.