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Photorealistic AI models retain NSFW training bias
Base Stable Diffusion struggles with photorealism and anatomy. Fine-tuned models trained on explicit content produce better results but retain that bias, requiring builders of AI imaging startups to actively prompt out unwanted NSFW outputs.
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Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development
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if you look at the photorealistic models that people use now, there’s still core of porn there, of naked people. So I need to prompt out, and everybody needs to do this with AI startups, with imaging, you need to prompt out the naked stuff.
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