Stability AI says one of its goals is to democratize image generation and make it available to both scientists and the general public.The press release published on the Stability AI website on August 22, 2022 provides the following details:
The model is released under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license, which allows both non-commercial and commercial use. According to the license terms, the ethical and legal responsibility lies with the user. Any redistribution of the model should be accompanied by the license.
A default AI-based safety classifier that removes undesirable outputs is included in the model’s software package. Since the model was trained on broad data from the internet, it can reproduce biases of the society or generate controversial content. Stability AI welcomes feedback from the community on possible improvements.
In the near future, Stability AI will release optimized versions and architectures of Stable Diffusion to improve its performance and minimize potential adverse outcomes.