Stable Diffusion 3's Concerning Fine Print: What Studios and Artists Should Know About the New Terms

We took a look at the fine print of Stable Diffusion 3's new licenses and break down what you need to know if you are planning to use SD3 for commercial or non-commercial work.

00:00 Introduction
00:34 What is SD3?
00:57 Strengths of SD3
01:24 Community Criticism of SD3
01:52 Overview of the SD3 Licenses
03:50 Basic Definitions of SD3 License
04:45 Explaining "Derivative Works"
05:50 Recurring License Fees
06:15 Termination of License Fees
07:20 Intellectual Property Considerations
08:06 Takeaways
09:30 Recommendations & Predictions
12:17 Closing

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So glad someone took the time to explain this, I'm finally understanding why the backlash was so extreme and justified. Hopefully louis rossmann makes a video about it so more people know whats going on

[AnnCatsanndra]

Feels like this SD3 release was a desperation move from running low on capital rather than feeling the product is ready.

[MarkTarsis]

This is an excellent video, thanks for going over the license details. For myself, the new license has me experimenting with PixArt Sigma using SD1.5/XL models as a refiner and getting excellent results. PixArt does well as a base, it just lacks polish and clarity which SD models like Photon do well with. I really hope the SD3 situation has more creators investing time into improving other models. It's not great that the open source community has been so focused on Stable Diffusion. We need to stay flexible and keep our options open.

[housedelarouxmotion]

When I heard "all your work must be destroyed" I spit out my coffee laughingWho would make art off this if their life's work hinged on a missed credit card payment?!

[pathworker]

These guys have just shot themselves in the foot with that licensing model.

[EarnestWilliamsGeofferic]

This is completely unenforceable. I can legally create a derivative work from your art. I own it. If you made that art with SD3 and stopped paying the license, I will not be forced to destroy my derivative work.

Whoever signed off on this is incompetent.

[MilesBellas]

Stability should be supporting Invoke, as with Comfyui.

[rxxlznu]

Thank you for this breakdown of the license. I previously took a brief glance at the license and found the commercial restrictions combined with the censorship (SD2.0 indicates this model will have anatomy problems) told me all I need to know to decide not to use SD3. I may try it at some point, but I have no use for it because of the licensing.

[Dalin_B]

Honestly, I can use SDXL for the rest of my life

[jolotschka]

Stability AI renewing medieval serfdom via licence 😊

[helmort]

I'm sharing this video on X to help people to understand what's going on

[RamonGuthrie]

Great video, this video needs more visibility

[CMakr]

So, not only Stability AI is ignoring requests and questions from the Pony developer, they also ignore your questions, and at the same time is trying to push the positivity around the bleached 2B model that can’t even draw people, AND simultaneously putting the responsibility for further development of their model on shoulders of community? Is this out of season april joke? What should I doin cases where I am, as a creator and professional, would ever use any derivative work in projects for my clients? And what if studio decide to use my generations for training their own LoRas?Would I be obliged to pay the fees for life? That’s more predatory than Adobe practices with whole year obligation to pay subscription. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If that’s the case I would gladly stick to SDXL and Firefly

[actellimQT]

won't touch it until I can run it locally and use the outputs with impunity. disappointing blow to open source.

[markcorrigan]

Great video! But I never understood how SAI would possibly be able to keep track of who uses images made with their models for training purposes for example. It seems hard to enforce?

[Afrmanpeace]

As a SDXL/SD3 checkpoint creator and artist I absolutely agree with you. I will stay away using SD3 commercial. I have already created a scientific uses model on civitai with SDXL Clips hours after the release. But looking at this license right now I am hesitant creating fine-tunes/Loras for SD3. And that's a shame. Also looking at my latest SDXL models I've released it's hard to say if a training of SD3 is worth it. The minor flaws with text can be solved quickly and if you just try it a couple of times you get even better images than SD3 with them. Now to the image limit.. So if I understand it right using SD3 commercial.. When you just let it create let's say 100 images to pick from it counts? I have workflows that creates a lot of images in short times 😊.

[Edwardsmith]

Does anyone know why I get faulty images when I install sd1.5 model that is larger than 2gb, like Cetus mix whalefall2?, using invoke ui, in the log I see something like remove --extract_ema

[hejjj]

That license/subscription really killed it. If anyone ever gets SD3 to work well, I guess everyone will just say it's a high upscaled 1.5...😅

Just let private people by the base for 50-100$ for life. 100-500$ for trainers that sell models.
And a real high price for enterprises.
That would have been acceptable.

[JustMaier]

How do they intended to enforce their policy about derivative works including models trained on their model's outputs?

[nomorejustice]

Someone pls answer, why is invoke ai so slow in generating images if the installation is on disk d. aky previously installed on c and very fast generation 😢