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We’ve put 12.4 million of the most beautiful images in the public domain into an image-text dataset with community governance. Public Domain 12M is completely free. Its 30+ terabytes of images are hosted on AWS, so downloading them is fast and won’t negatively impact the cultural heritage organizations who originally shared them.
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Spawning@spawning_20 Dec 2024
I sat down with CEO Jordan Meyer and CTO Nick Padgett to talk all things Public Diffusion, from fine-tuning, to prompting like a photographer and what’s next for beta testers. Link to the interview, and some choice quotes, in 🧵
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I sat down with CEO Jordan Meyer and CTO Nick Padgett to talk all things Public Diffusion, from fine-tuning, to prompting like a photographer and what’s next for beta testers. Link to the interview, and some choice quotes, in 🧵
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What CEO Jordan Meyer hopes PD will be known for: “[enabling] a whole class of users—who were uncomfortable with other methods—to engage with AI seriously and professionally and deeply, and to come up with new techniques in their own artistic practice that they're excited about.” open.substack.com/pub/spawni…
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A peek into what’s planned for beta testing: “this early beta is a crucial step towards our goal of releasing an open-weight model into the commons next year. . . .” open.substack.com/pub/spawni…
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Help us shape Public Diffusion—our t2i model trained on 30 million highly-aesthetic public domain images. Join the private beta! source.plus/public-diffusion…
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Our CTO, @ncpadge, took a step back from Public Diffusion beta prep to share some results from the model he's been tirelessly working on.
Nick Padgett@ncpadge11 Dec 2024
More Public Diffusion samples! It’s still very early on (<33% done), but I’m optimistic with the quality of these outputs. Some interesting examples in 🧵, all prompts in the alt text. My favorites:
A painting of the interior of a cathedral with people sitting on the floor, surrounded by pillars, statues, and stained glass windows. The ceiling is visible at the top of the painting, and the walls are adorned with intricate designs.

ALT A painting of the interior of a cathedral with people sitting on the floor, surrounded by pillars, statues, and stained glass windows. The ceiling is visible at the top of the painting, and the walls are adorned with intricate designs.

A photo of a foggy medieval village with a wide, empty road in the center of the image from the foreground to the background, leading directly into the fog. The ground is made of dark soil and is muddy, with standing pools of water. The ground is heavily disturbed. The village buildings have thatched roofs. There are crudely crafted vendor tables, stands, and carts on the side of the road. No person is present, giving an ominous feeling. Gothic cathedrals can be seen in the far distance. The outline of a hillside is visible in the fog.

ALT A photo of a foggy medieval village with a wide, empty road in the center of the image from the foreground to the background, leading directly into the fog. The ground is made of dark soil and is muddy, with standing pools of water. The ground is heavily disturbed. The village buildings have thatched roofs. There are crudely crafted vendor tables, stands, and carts on the side of the road. No person is present, giving an ominous feeling. Gothic cathedrals can be seen in the far distance. The outline of a hillside is visible in the fog.

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More Public Diffusion samples! It’s still very early on (<33% done), but I’m optimistic with the quality of these outputs. Some interesting examples in 🧵, all prompts in the alt text. My favorites:
A painting of the interior of a cathedral with people sitting on the floor, surrounded by pillars, statues, and stained glass windows. The ceiling is visible at the top of the painting, and the walls are adorned with intricate designs.

ALT A painting of the interior of a cathedral with people sitting on the floor, surrounded by pillars, statues, and stained glass windows. The ceiling is visible at the top of the painting, and the walls are adorned with intricate designs.

A photo of a foggy medieval village with a wide, empty road in the center of the image from the foreground to the background, leading directly into the fog. The ground is made of dark soil and is muddy, with standing pools of water. The ground is heavily disturbed. The village buildings have thatched roofs. There are crudely crafted vendor tables, stands, and carts on the side of the road. No person is present, giving an ominous feeling. Gothic cathedrals can be seen in the far distance. The outline of a hillside is visible in the fog.

ALT A photo of a foggy medieval village with a wide, empty road in the center of the image from the foreground to the background, leading directly into the fog. The ground is made of dark soil and is muddy, with standing pools of water. The ground is heavily disturbed. The village buildings have thatched roofs. There are crudely crafted vendor tables, stands, and carts on the side of the road. No person is present, giving an ominous feeling. Gothic cathedrals can be seen in the far distance. The outline of a hillside is visible in the fog.

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Here are some images from our first candidate model for Public Diffusion. It still needs a lot more time in the oven, but these early results are very promising. Prompts in the alt text.
"a painting of a snowy mountain landscape with a stream running through it, surrounded by trees, rocks, and a house. The sky is filled with clouds and the mountains are covered in a blanket of snow."

ALT "a painting of a snowy mountain landscape with a stream running through it, surrounded by trees, rocks, and a house. The sky is filled with clouds and the mountains are covered in a blanket of snow."

“a painting of a sunset over a body of water with a castle in the distance, surrounded by hills and rocks. The sky is filled with clouds and the sun is setting.”

ALT “a painting of a sunset over a body of water with a castle in the distance, surrounded by hills and rocks. The sky is filled with clouds and the sun is setting.”

"an oil painting of a majestic waterfall in the middle of a lush green forest. The waterfall is surrounded by tall trees on either side, and the sky is filled with white, fluffy clouds. The water cascades down the rocks, creating a beautiful and serene atmosphere."

ALT "an oil painting of a majestic waterfall in the middle of a lush green forest. The waterfall is surrounded by tall trees on either side, and the sky is filled with white, fluffy clouds. The water cascades down the rocks, creating a beautiful and serene atmosphere."

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Public Diffusion proves a radical idea: you don’t need infinite data—you need curated data. With just public domain images, the early results rival top-tier AI art models with just 30% training complete. The future isn’t owned. It’s shared. cc: @spawning_ @ncpadge @JordanCMeyer
Jordan Meyer@JordanCMeyer9 Dec 2024
Replying to @JordanCMeyer
Some were skeptical that a public domain collection could produce a model with image quality rivaling top-tier AI art systems. Here are some comparisons of early PD outputs vs. Flux Dev, using the same prompts. To my eyes, PD is holding its own and looking more painterly.
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First visual model trained on fully open data coming. Like for text, the striking thing is not only that it is possible in the first place but that it brings so much more variety and diversity of outputs. There’s an entire world beyond web archives.
Jordan Meyer@JordanCMeyer9 Dec 2024
Replying to @JordanCMeyer
Some were skeptical that a public domain collection could produce a model with image quality rivaling top-tier AI art systems. Here are some comparisons of early PD outputs vs. Flux Dev, using the same prompts. To my eyes, PD is holding its own and looking more painterly.
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Check out this thread for a sneak peek of our upcoming Public Domain image model!
Jordan Meyer@JordanCMeyer9 Dec 2024
With Public Diffusion, @spawning_ set out to prove that it's possible to train a beautiful AI Art model using only images from the public domain. As of today, we’re 30% into training our first model, and the early results speak for themselves. Take a look…🧵
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███░░░░░░░░░ ~25% trained "A painting of a mountain lake with a boat in the foreground, surrounded by lush green grass, trees, and rocks. The sky is filled with white, fluffy clouds, creating a peaceful atmosphere."
Holly Herndon@hollyherndon6 Dec 2024
Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion @spawning_ PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material Link below
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While lawsuits about training data and copyright law wend their way through the courts... ...@spawning_ is building image generation tools trained on public domain/CC0. Check out Public Diffusion.
Holly Herndon@hollyherndon6 Dec 2024
Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion @spawning_ PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material Link below
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Early access: test Public Diffusion, our image-text model training on 30 million public domain images. Sign up to join the private beta! source.plus/public-diffusion…
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♩'music' search results from @spawning_ PD12M ♩
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How do you choose 12.4 million images out a sea of options? Learn how we curated PD12M using the tools on Source.Plus. Link in reply.
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Transparency drives better AI training practices. PD12M is fully searchable on Source.Plus. Discover how we sourced the images in our latest blog post. Link below.
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