It's great that the code is open source. However, the magic is in the models. I wouldn't be so sure that model access won't have the same restrictions as OpenAI.
From the repo:
"To prevent misuse and harm, we currently provide access to the checkpoints only for academic research purposes upon request. This is an experiment in safe and community-driven publication of a capable and general text-to-image model. We are working on a public release with a more permissive license that also incorporates ethical considerations."
Right now the model people use in the closed beta is really permissive, it can create NSFW, famous people, gorish images, etc. I don't think (I hope) that the model will change much. They will probably release all the weights from the different training phases.
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It's great that the code is open source. However, the magic is in the models. I wouldn't be so sure that model access won't have the same restrictions as OpenAI.
From the repo:
"To prevent misuse and harm, we currently provide access to the checkpoints only for academic research purposes upon request. This is an experiment in safe and community-driven publication of a capable and general text-to-image model. We are working on a public release with a more permissive license that also incorporates ethical considerations."
Right now the model people use in the closed beta is really permissive, it can create NSFW, famous people, gorish images, etc. I don't think (I hope) that the model will change much. They will probably release all the weights from the different training phases.