@Radical_EgoCom@Ardubal As a Cuban myself, allow me to disagree with using Cuba as an example here. "..has abolished capitalism.."? It tried, but failed miserably. Today Cuban live under a very weird form of neoliberalism that I don't see as the goal of any society. "..has survived..", that is a stretch. They are barely surviving one day after another with no clear path into the future, if you have time and energy to think about the future, that is.
"In keeping with our commitment to open generative AI, we aim to make the model weights available for self-hosting with a Stability AI Membership in the near future."
@BeAware Not exactly free, "yet", I had to pay in order to use their api to generate those images, but it is certainly cheap and eventually the model will be released as open source (check link below), which will allow for the community to tinker with it, fine tune it and create improved versions that may solve/improve this issue and others that it may have. It has been like that since sd1.5.