If this is fast enough, then you could use it to render images locally for personal use. Websites could deliver prompts only, perhaps rendering different images for different users. At that point, what does it mean for copyrights? Is the model itself copyrighted or does the system break down?
> If this is fast enough, then you could use it to render images locally for personal use. Websites could deliver prompts only, perhaps rendering different images for different users.
That's a fascinating possibility, but we're very far from that world right now: elsewhere in the thread it's mentioned that this actively uses 8 GB of RAM. And I doubt many web designers would accept the risk that a model misinterprets a prompt, produces distorted output (like the wrong number of fingers on someone's hands), or accidentally produces sexual or violent content in a context where it's not intended.
For many generative image models today, people often pick the best of a dozen or more images, and the others that they throw away may actually be quite bad.
The quality and predictability of the models would need to be significantly higher than it is now in order to routinely dynamically illustrate web sites.
But I don't want to say that we'll never get there. All of the recent models are doing things now that would have been considered inconceivable just a few years ago. (Compare https://xkcd.com/1425/ where it may even be a challenge to explain the issue behind the joke to some younger readers!)
