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The original was posted on /r/stablediffusion by /u/terrariyum on 2024-09-10 02:36:48+00:00.

1. A free resource is around the corner

SD1 has several free ones. Midjourney has midlibrary.io. For SDXL, I made a free an open-source webapp to explore SDXL artist styles, and there are others.

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2. What about Flux, Auraflow, etc.?

Someone will make them for free soon. I encourage anyone to fork my webapp, which uses this free and open-source database of artists and style tags. The code is easily adaptable for any model, and it’s well documented. The database is the best open-source artist and style tags database available. I’m not bragging, I’m challenging the community to one-up me.

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3. Time and effort alone don’t justify a pay-wall

I can say that having personally spent hundreds of hours developing my webapp code, hand creating the database of tags, generating thousands of images, and vetting which artists actually work in SDXL. I don’t want anything in return because this information simply needs to be free.

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4. Don’t encourage pay-only diffusion

We know the big companies would love to ban open-weights so that we all have to pay them a recurring fee forever. If you pony up for a pay-wall, even if it’s just a one-person small time outfit, it sends a message. It adds a brick to the wall of closed-source and pay-only diffusion. Instead, donate to those who donate their time to the community. None of us could be diffusing if not for the open-weight models and free tutorials and and information exchange. Let’s keep it going.

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5. Pay-walling artist style data and artist imitation is unjustifiable

Diffusion models and any resources related to them wouldn’t be possible if not for the artists who made the artwork that the models are trained on. Scraping artwork to train is ethical if the resulting model is free and open source. Just like I can ethically and legally look at any artist’s work and manually imitate their style. But trying to earn money off of an artist’s brand name or their specific works isn’t legal or ethical. That’s like selling a course called, “Learn how to paint like Rutkowski”.