NSFW ‘Unstable Diffusion’ Claims Users Generate Over 500K Images Per Day NSFW
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After being fixated with scantily-clad, non-existent influencers, humans are now acting on their fantasies… by going click-crazy on AI art generators.
Unstable Diffusion, a lewd, illicit cousin of Stable Diffusion, comes without the anti-nudity rules imposed by other tools of its kind. Operating on a justification for the “freedom to create,” it allows users to create NSFW pictures.
Today, Unstable Diffusion generates more than 500,000 images daily, the venture’s CEO and co-founder Arman Chaudhry tells Insider. This is despite the fact that the app was kicked out of Kickstarter last December after it raised US$56,000—meaning all the capital was returned to crowdfunders.
The engine started out as a subreddit for AI-generated pornography before relocating to Discord, where it saw its evolution into an art generator by way of some tech-savvy members. After losing its US$56,000, the group still managed to pool together US$30,000 in funds to build a standalone web app.
As its name suggests, Unstable Diffusion is built on the open-source code of the popular Stable Diffusion, though it should be noted that there are no official ties between the two.
As the original’s dataset only contains about 2.9% of NSFW content, the makers of Unstable Diffusion had to feed their version with a large endowment of material, with assistance by volunteers in the community.
A more conservative image generated on Unstable Diffusion. Image via Unstable Diffusion
While the basic tier for Unstable Diffusion is free, the app also includes premium services that allow quicker generations and commercial use.
All told, it’s impossible not to tether such programs with their potential implications in deepfake porn. Even before the existence of these capabilities, victims had had their livelihoods ruined over compromising images they had no part in.
As mentioned by TechCrunch, the Washington Post reported that a small-town school teacher had lost her job after parents discovered adult content that was made in her likeness without her permission. It also cited a Fox News piece about a teenage boy whose photo was altered into a nude for blackmail.
To weed out artwork containing resemblances to real people, Unstable Diffusion uses an “aggressive filter and moderation system,” Chaudhry told Insider in February. It also prohibits the creation of “pornographic material featuring celebrities, politicians, or any well-known public figures,” and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Although TechCrunch was still able to churn out images of Chris Hemsworth lookalikes, Chaudhry argues that this was only possible during a time the app was experiencing a “bug” with its “deepfake content generation filter.”
[via Insider and TechCrunch, images via various sources]
