Once you can run decent image generation models on your phone, what shall we do? Prohibit apps that allow you to run custom models? Add a mandatory safety check?
It seems like a pointless exercise to me - better punish the actual crime rather than try to regulate the tech.
There is significant societal value in preventing crimes rather than just punishing them.
And even if you outlawed the distribution of uncensored models, we face the next question when you can do the fine tuning directly on the phone and someone makes an accessible app.
Do we then prohibit apps that allow you to fine-tune a model, do we mandate safety scans of the images in the dataset?
> when you can do the fine tuning directly on the phone
Well you'd need millions of on/off nude samples to start with, so I don't think that's likely. And that's assuming we get a billionfold increase in mobile CPU performance or a billionfold decrease in fine tuning compute requirements.
You're reaching for things that, if they happen, are a decade or more out. It's ok to solve today's problems today. Perfect is the enemy of good.
How much quality that gets you I don't know - perhaps the versions people publish are trained with larger datasets.
I know that one popular anime finetune of SDXL cost $180k in compute on 8xH100 for two months.