It's what Google claimed and thus the eternally true correct reason and its very problematic if you think otherwise
I don't think it's problematic to be worried about that!
Especially when getting it wrong once might mean Europe makes AI illegal. Making things illegal is their favorite hobby.
Revenge porn and CSAM are trivially solved by community moderation methods like Midjourney, simply force every generation to be tied to a paid account, and made in the public eye (posted on discord channels).
So in reality, its not Google's risk conservatism, its Google's utter lack of imagination and creativity, and the lack of organisational incentive for anything other than ad money.
SDXL is available at https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/ though they say they're going to release more variants.
I think ControlNet is a lot more interesting than just "better tuned models"; it means there's no line between creating something yourself and asking an AI to do it anymore.
Automation is associated with increased employment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> Revenge porn and CSAM are trivially solved by community moderation methods like Midjourney
Please don't go around saying things like entire safety departments being trivially solved by anything. Community moderation isn't a legal solution to CSAM, it's arguable the community users are committing crimes by looking at it. (Extra difficult because this depends on the country.) And they're certainly not getting healthcare benefits for it, so they could probably sue you.
This is the reason they're on Discord though, it's because Discord handles the legal compliance for these things.