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The original was posted on /r/stablediffusion by /u/tristan22mc69 on 2024-06-18 00:38:14+00:00.
For privacy reasons I won't state exactly what my business is but essentially I run an online image generation service (combined with some other stuff) basically the exact type of business Stability AI is targeting with their latest license.
I've been insanely excited for the release of SD3 due to the increase in prompt adherence and quality for my customers and have been fully planning on paying the license fees for SD3 as long as they were reasonable. And from what I was seeing on their website ($20 a month for less than $1,000,000 in revenue) it was honestly way more than reasonable.
But after this past week and the release of SD3, upgrading my current infrastructure with SD3 seems too big of a risk. The model has issues, the license is confusing but honestly worst of all they went and pissed off the community to such a degree, which is the biggest value to using the Stability AI models. Control nets, Ipadapter, finetunes, tutorial videos, the constant release of new and valuable tools like differential diffusion, and AYS. This is where a huge chunk (maybe even majority) of the value is made for these models.
I'm honestly not even sure what the license would cost me generating more than 6000 images per month but it almost doesn't even matter because why would I now invest into SD3, get my customers used to the look and feel of the model only to probably have to move to another model as the community's focus quickly brings new innovation to a different ecosystem.
Plus if I do change models down the road I apparently have to delete my models or possibly images that have been generated?? The whole license is honestly just confusing.
Point is Stability's decision making has made it really hard for me to move forward with SD3. I can't actually even use the model until some tooling is made anyways like controlnets and ipadapter (which who knows if decent models are ever going to come now) I'd honestly rather just move with the community to whichever new model ecosystem they decide to move to.