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Stability AI Introduces Stable Cascade: A Modular, Efficient, and Easy-to-Train Text2Img Model (stability.ai)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Stable Cascade is exceptionally easy to train and finetune on consumer hardware thanks to its three-stage approach.”

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[–] RonSijm 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This model is being released under a non-commercial license that permits non-commercial use only.

Hmm, I wonder whether this means that the model can't be run under replicate.com or mage.space.

Is it commercial use if you have to pay for credits/monthly for the machines that the models are running on?

Like is "Selling the models as a service" commercial use, or can't the output of the models be used commercially?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

License: https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade/blob/master/LICENSE

[–] RonSijm 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"b. You may not use the Software Products or Derivative Works to enable third parties to use the Software Products or Derivative Works as part of your hosted service or via your APIs"

I suppose it's not allowed them. That kind of sucks, it is pretty convenient to just use a replicate.com machine and use a large image model kinda instantly. Or spin up your own machine for a while if you need lots of images without a potential cold-start or slow usage on shared machines

I wonder why they chose this license, because the common SD license basically lets you do whatever you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They're VC funded, so they need to start getting a ROI. Very disappointing license but it will also massively slow down its spread.