Until today, yes was once an active Kickstarter campaign for unstable diffusiona project that describes itself as “a group born of grassroots community efforts to disprove the restrictive rules of enterprise AI companies”.
The campaign, which comfortably surpassed its initial funding goals, says its goals are:
This is to fund the development of community-first, open-source AI models that will achieve the dreams of a billion people discovering and creating art with nothing but their imaginations. This revolution in human expression would be tantamount to inventing the printing press or the Internet. AI allows anyone to make art.
Although the Kickstarter campaign uses a lot of language very carefully not to articulate its true intentions, you can read between the lines in sentences as the group laments that “the last company to release open source AI visualization models succumbed to investor pressure and released a heavily disabled version of their previous model.”, and that their code of ethics states that they “plan to exclude all children from our dataset to eliminate the potential for abuse when using our API”.
Basically, like TechCrunch report, these people are frustrated that the current AI-generated image models don’t produce good porn, so they want to build a community to help them work better. Now, I’m not here to criticize anyone’s preferences or desires for online content, we’re all adults here and everyone has their own preferences.
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But porn or not, this is still an AI-generated image, and given the demonstrations that are currently taking place in ArtStationand given the broader controversies surrounding the field in general, unstable diffusion came at the right time to be the campaign to get Kickstarter to review their own policies on the matter.
The crowdfunding platform has yet to issue firm guidelines, saying that “we are sometimes navigating some really complicated and unknown areas,” but the company did release a statement. shows that at least for now they will,”side with creative work and the people behind it.”.
I wanted to share some of our thoughts on AI-generated imagery and art as it evolves, because many Kickstarter creators are concerned about its impact on Creative community is understandable.
At Kickstarter, we often have projects that innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible. And that means sometimes we’re navigating some really complicated and unknown areas.
In the past few days we have been participating Community Advisory Council and we have read your feedback to us through our team and social media. And one thing is clear: Kickstarter must and always will be on the side of creative work and the people behind it. We are here to help creative work flourish.
As we take a look at what’s happening in the creative ecosystem and across our platforms, here are some of the things we’re looking at when it comes to where AI and artwork creation software stands: AI-generated art on Kickstarter, if available:
– Does the project copy or imitate the artist’s work? We must consider not only whether a work has a simple copyright claim, but also evaluate situations where it is not clear — when images owned or created by others may not be recognized. above a Kickstarter project page, but In training data that makes up the AI software used in the project without the creator’s knowledge, attribution, or consent.
– Does the project exploit a particular community or put anyone at risk? We have to consider the intentions behind projects, which sometimes go beyond their purpose as stated on our platform. Our rules prohibit projects that promote discrimination, bigotry or intolerance towards disadvantaged groups, and we generally make decisions to protect the health and integrity of Kickstarter.
The technology is really new and we don’t have all the answers. The decisions we make now may not be the ones we make in the future, so we want this to be an ongoing conversation with all of you. You can share your thoughts by writing to [email protected] as we continue to develop our approach to the use of images and AI software on our platform.
That statement was made at the same time Unstable diffusion campaign has been suspended (with all backers getting refunds). It’s important to note that while this post is primarily about the general idea of AI-generated images, the mentions of harm seem to be addressing specific criticisms of unstable diffusion:
