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31 Oct 2024
We’ve put 12.4 million of the most beautiful images in the public domain into an image-text dataset with community governance. Public Domain 12M is completely free. Its 30 terabytes of images are hosted on AWS, so downloading them is fast and won’t negatively impact the cultural heritage organizations who originally shared them.
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I sat down with CEO Jordan Meyer and CTO Nick Padgett to talk all things Public Diffusion, from fine-tuning, to prompting like a photographer and what’s next for beta testers. Link to the interview, and some choice quotes, in 🧵
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I sat down with CEO Jordan Meyer and CTO Nick Padgett to talk all things Public Diffusion, from fine-tuning, to prompting like a photographer and what’s next for beta testers. Link to the interview, and some choice quotes, in 🧵
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What CEO Jordan Meyer hopes PD will be known for: “[enabling] a whole class of users—who were uncomfortable with other methods—to engage with AI seriously and professionally and deeply, and to come up with new techniques in their own artistic practice that they're excited about.” open.substack.com/pub/spawni…

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A peek into what’s planned for beta testing: “this early beta is a crucial step towards our goal of releasing an open-weight model into the commons next year. . . .” open.substack.com/pub/spawni…

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Help us shape Public Diffusion—our t2i model trained on 30 million highly-aesthetic public domain images. Join the private beta! source.plus/public-diffusion…

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11 Dec 2024
Our CTO, @ncpadge, took a step back from Public Diffusion beta prep to share some results from the model he's been tirelessly working on.
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More Public Diffusion samples! It’s still very early on (<33% done), but I’m optimistic with the quality of these outputs. Some interesting examples in 🧵, all prompts in the alt text. My favorites:
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11 Dec 2024
More Public Diffusion samples! It’s still very early on (<33% done), but I’m optimistic with the quality of these outputs. Some interesting examples in 🧵, all prompts in the alt text. My favorites:
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Here are some images from our first candidate model for Public Diffusion. It still needs a lot more time in the oven, but these early results are very promising. Prompts in the alt text.
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Public Diffusion proves a radical idea: you don’t need infinite data—you need curated data. With just public domain images, the early results rival top-tier AI art models with just 30% training complete. The future isn’t owned. It’s shared. cc: @spawning_ @ncpadge @JordanCMeyer
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Some were skeptical that a public domain collection could produce a model with image quality rivaling top-tier AI art systems. Here are some comparisons of early PD outputs vs. Flux Dev, using the same prompts. To my eyes, PD is holding its own and looking more painterly.
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First visual model trained on fully open data coming. Like for text, the striking thing is not only that it is possible in the first place but that it brings so much more variety and diversity of outputs. There’s an entire world beyond web archives.
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Some were skeptical that a public domain collection could produce a model with image quality rivaling top-tier AI art systems. Here are some comparisons of early PD outputs vs. Flux Dev, using the same prompts. To my eyes, PD is holding its own and looking more painterly.
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Check out this thread for a sneak peek of our upcoming Public Domain image model!
With Public Diffusion, @spawning_ set out to prove that it's possible to train a beautiful AI Art model using only images from the public domain. As of today, we’re 30% into training our first model, and the early results speak for themselves. Take a look…🧵
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███░░░░░░░░░ ~25% trained "A painting of a mountain lake with a boat in the foreground, surrounded by lush green grass, trees, and rocks. The sky is filled with white, fluffy clouds, creating a peaceful atmosphere."
Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion @spawning_ PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material Link below
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6 Dec 2024
While lawsuits about training data and copyright law wend their way through the courts... ...@spawning_ is building image generation tools trained on public domain/CC0. Check out Public Diffusion.
Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion @spawning_ PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material Link below
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Early access: test Public Diffusion, our image-text model training on 30 million public domain images. Sign up to join the private beta! source.plus/public-diffusion…
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♩'music' search results from @spawning_ PD12M ♩
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How do you choose 12.4 million images out a sea of options? Learn how we curated PD12M using the tools on Source.Plus. Link in reply.
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Transparency drives better AI training practices. PD12M is fully searchable on Source.Plus. Discover how we sourced the images in our latest blog post. Link below.
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