There's so much icky stuff going on in the generative art community and no one knows just how deep that rabbit hole goes.
E.g.: https://github.com/Kahsolt/stable-diffusion-webui-sonar
(See bottom of page).
It's not a "normie" take that we shouldn't sexualize children, even if they are animated.
I was expecting some of the horrible stuff I’ve seen on 4chan, not something you might see in a mainstream (bad) anime.
If anything, it looks like the AI cleaned it up and made it more presentable.
It's like going to an artists twitter and then complaining that their art style is garbage and that they should change it. No one is forcing you to consume that person's content.
Not all content on the internet needs to appeal to everyone even if everyone is on the internet.
No one is forcing him to use GitHub.
They'd rather lose a few Automatic1111's than have schoolteachers telling students "Don't go on GitHub, it's not safe" (or having school administrations ban its use).
But it kind of is depending on your definition of icky. The fact that they've trained the models to be extremely proficient forgers should raise all sorts of red flags. I get the concept of homage and every great artist borrows/steals, blah blah, but as these things continue to get better, the lines between legit artist work and forgery will only blur to unknowable. Digital artists will now need to know how to cryptographically sign their work. There have been tools for this that most ignore because of pricing. (and no i'm not talking about NFT nonsense)
To be fair, there is substantial interest in using things like Stable Diffusion to generate pornography. There are several projects for hentai, etc.
There have also been large threads on /g/ teaching people how to generate hypernerworks with suspiciously young looking subjects since the beginning. The "icky stuff" has a disturbing footprint.
Wanting to making pornography is perfectly normal and healthy; that's not something I consider icky. When I quoted "icky stuff" I thought we were talking about the generation of underage subjects.
Have you seen ANY legal age subjects? Subjectively, how much fraction of anime pictures do you consider to be portraying individuals able to consent?
I mean, if there was an NN code that is returning 0.0120000 for 85% in inference data but ranging evenly between 0.0 to 1.0 in training, intuition shouldn't be that it's the reality that is broken.
It's in my self interest to not see icky things.