It'll be interesting to see what happens when a copyright troll ( https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-... ) realizes that they can acquire the rights to models distributed under these vague-as-fog moral panic licenses, or distribute their own and have people actually use them, and start extracting rents.
These licenses will do little to nothing to stop abuse: The abusers will already conceal their identities because their actions are immoral or even illegal (fraud, harassment, etc). But they create a whole host of new liabilities for the users because the definitions are exceedingly subjective.
It's tremendously important to make these tools actually open. But open with a lurking liability bomb stops short of the goal. While stability.ai may never turn into a troll or sell their rights to one, that isn't necessarily true for the next model that comes around.
That raises the question. What is the economic licensing for StableDiffusion et al? Can I download it and set it up, and then charge people money to run it?
These licenses will do little to nothing to stop abuse: The abusers will already conceal their identities because their actions are immoral or even illegal (fraud, harassment, etc). But they create a whole host of new liabilities for the users because the definitions are exceedingly subjective.
It's tremendously important to make these tools actually open. But open with a lurking liability bomb stops short of the goal. While stability.ai may never turn into a troll or sell their rights to one, that isn't necessarily true for the next model that comes around.