We also developed VQGAN-CLIP and CLIP-Guided Diffusion, techniques for doing text-to-image synthesis that don't require training and can easily be run locally for inference.
They suck in public data, create models, let them loose, let hyped people improve them and profit off of data and people's free work.
IOW, a mechanical Turk which doesn't pay.
But I’m confused by the anti non-profit vibes in this comment section. We aren’t saying that becoming a non-profit makes us ethical people, that would be a silly argument. But people do realize that the alternative would be to become a for-profit entity right?
We’re still the same community-driven open collaborative research lab we’ve always been. But incorporating allows us to do things like hire full time staff, enter organizationally binding legal agreements, and protect our members. Between the options of becoming a for-profit and a non-profit, the later seems clearly better suited for our goals.