Comment Comment by astrange StableDiffusion has an open dataset, was funded by one guy, and apparently took "much less than $600k" to train on AWS (https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1563965366061211660).So it seems there actually aren't many barriers to entry at all. There's certainly a lot of legal questions, but if it's this easy to create your own model then it's hard to enforce anything… parent astrange 4 years ago
So it seems there actually aren't many barriers to entry at all. There's certainly a lot of legal questions, but if it's this easy to create your own model then it's hard to enforce anything…