NEW COMFY ECOSYSTEM! Comfy & mcmonkey QUITS Stability.

[peacefusion]

Stability pulled a Unity over night. They meant what they said. Now they reap the reception. There is open source AI and its sad few want to support them. These companies want to take the AI public database and then say "you cant have it for free, but we can, and well charge you for it."

[tomorbataar]

This really feels like an end of an era. Personally I'm optimistic, perhaps the open source community has been too reliant on SAI (to the point of them poaching devs that perhaps should have their hands untied, like Comfy).

At least this drama has signal boosted alternative open source models, will be exiting to see where things develop.

[pon]

When your base idea is to have an open source free model that people can train to be better, it is a very bad idea to put a lot of restrictions on training and distribution of models. They know that CivitAI is their biggest platform, but they alienate themselves from them to the degree that they can't publish the models people make.

[marlonaviz]

The motivation we needed to full open-source

[tradehut]

If stability was a listed stock, it would have crashed by 95% in the last 2 weeks.

[daedalus-]

So many news in the AI image generation world.

1) ForgeUI is going to go in experimental mode due to A1111 hitting 2.0 soon and implementing Forge's faster and lighter generation image tech. Time to switch back to A1111.

2) SD3 has been banned from CivitAI (at least, temporarily) due to their unclear License. I hope StabilityAI gives clarifications soon and hopefully a better license model for SD3.

3) SD3 flop. Here it's maybe a bit too early to tell, #2 needs to get fixed, and 4b/8b eventually released. i'll reserve judgment because I want to give StabilityAI the chance to make things right.

[PaddysPubPatron]

Thanks for this, work is crazy lately and it feels like news around SD3 is moving faster than I can keep up. Appreciate your work.

[RoguishlyHandsome]

Much appreciate the thoughtful, balanced and realist message.

[jonmichaelgalindo]

Best take I've heard. ❤ I'm not sure SAI knows what their license means, which might be why they can't comment.

[MistaRopa-]

Open-source applications aren't "free" for us users. We're investing our time, resources, skills and ideas into beta testing and refining the projects they eventually sell, closed-sourced to large corporations. Corporations who then scale and market them to the masses who don't even know most of this sh*t exists yet. Us "pioneer users" are a necessary part of the ecosystem. It takes time to make money. It also takes business savvy individuals working with developers and the community to make a successful enterprise. In this case one or several of the necessary elements was missing. I appreciate being allowed to benefit from their project and wish them all nothing but the best. They have succeeded in changing the world, and that's no small feat...

[Art-AI-and-beyond]

This channel is worth it just for the dad jokes at the end :)

[DoctorMandible]

Glad to see the community finally realizing the license problem. Maybe next we can stop referring to these products as "free" just because they let you tinker?

I'm building a product for 8 months now using SDXL. I have no reason to switch.

[nkofr]

why the manager has not yet been merged with Comfy?😲

[hakuhyo]

It seems like every competent devs/researchers are leaving SAI 😂

[jac]

Isn't it possible to train a great model like 3D3 or Sora through distributed computing, like BOINC projects? I'm sure that many of us would sign up to use our GPU's to contribute to something like that...

[ronnykhalil]

Breath of fresh air, as usual. Thanks for sharing

[mattmarket]

Could be impossible, but it would be really cool if some super genius could adapt SDXL to have the new advancements of SD3.

When SDXL came out I was hoping for a way to adapt sd1.5 loras to SDXL, and that eventually did happen. There’s some brilliant people in the world.

[robxsiq]

Pixart is amazing out of box. trying Hunyuan now (install difficulties, but its meant to be far better out of box than SD3). Folks, SD is gone. its time to move on. She's just not into you as a user, so...screw it. install and give it a whirl. make sure to get sigma, not alpha. CivitAI already has some new models up, so if it catches on, expect it to explode....it should catch on.

[TheMediaMachine]

Get ready, cause stability is already saying that any models you use of theirs, of their stability in general, IF you don't pay then you cannot use what you created when you did pay. If you close account, you must and so must your clients get rid of anything they created using their models/stability. Others will follow in doing this in future.

[digitus]

oh look comfyannon finally doing what i mentioned months ago when dealing with custom node devs just doing whatever they wanted with no rhyme or reason. Told him it was going to be a trojan nightmare and then someone does it. Told him there needs to be a structure, framework, security and a modern look so many times in the git issues. Already made a custom node framework that checks py packages against all other nodes and decides the best package for less errors. then made a model optimizer class that retrieves the nodes folder path for models and fixes it to use a standarized model library that can be accessed by other types of uis. Working on a templating framework instead of the "js gone wild" thats allowed now. Colorama'd the cmd for easing debugging. Standard stuff that isnt standard in comfy.