[HN Gopher] Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch Costs <$160k
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       Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch Costs <$160k
        
       Author : moinnadeem
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2023-01-25 22:39 UTC (21 minutes ago)
        
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       | marcooliv wrote:
       | Is there any value of this cost that we can say "this is
       | dangerous". For any reason?
        
       | gedy wrote:
       | Still pretty pricey for average person, but these will trend
       | cheaper and why I think it's futile to "regulate" AI. Someone
       | somewhere will train models on anything visible to public,
       | licensed or not. Feels like Pandora's box has been opened and we
       | need to deal with it.
        
         | adam_arthur wrote:
         | The companies that wait for a 100% "clean" model are going to
         | get left behind. e.g. ChatGPT launching despite Google, Meta
         | and others already having very similar technology internally
        
       | xwdv wrote:
       | We can do it for way less using spot instances on AWS, though it
       | takes longer.
        
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