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# Safe Stable Diffusion

Safe Stable Diffusion was proposed in [Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Models](https://huggingface.co/papers/2211.05105) and mitigates inappropriate degeneration from Stable Diffusion models because they're trained on unfiltered web-crawled datasets. For instance Stable Diffusion may unexpectedly generate nudity, violence, images depicting self-harm, and otherwise offensive content. Safe Stable Diffusion is an extension of Stable Diffusion that drastically reduces this type of content.

The abstract from the paper is:

*Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly scraped from the internet, they also suffer, as we demonstrate, from degenerated and biased human behavior. In turn, they may even reinforce such biases. To help combat these undesired side effects, we present safe latent diffusion (SLD). Specifically, to measure the inappropriate degeneration due to unfiltered and imbalanced training sets, we establish a novel image generation test bed-inappropriate image prompts (I2P)-containing dedicated, real-world image-to-text prompts covering concepts such as nudity and violence. As our exhaustive empirical evaluation demonstrates, the introduced SLD removes and suppresses inappropriate image parts during the diffusion process, with no additional training required and no adverse effect on overall image quality or text alignment.*

## Tips

Use the `safety_concept` property of [`StableDiffusionPipelineSafe`] to check and edit the current safety concept:

```python
>>> from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipelineSafe

>>> pipeline = StableDiffusionPipelineSafe.from_pretrained("AIML-TUDA/stable-diffusion-safe")
>>> pipeline.safety_concept
'an image showing hate, harassment, violence, suffering, humiliation, harm, suicide, sexual, nudity, bodily fluids, blood, obscene gestures, illegal activity, drug use, theft, vandalism, weapons, child abuse, brutality, cruelty'
```
For each image generation the active concept is also contained in [`StableDiffusionSafePipelineOutput`].

There are 4 configurations (`SafetyConfig.WEAK`, `SafetyConfig.MEDIUM`, `SafetyConfig.STRONG`, and `SafetyConfig.MAX`) that can be applied:

```python
>>> from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipelineSafe
>>> from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion_safe import SafetyConfig

>>> pipeline = StableDiffusionPipelineSafe.from_pretrained("AIML-TUDA/stable-diffusion-safe")
>>> prompt = "the four horsewomen of the apocalypse, painting by tom of finland, gaston bussiere, craig mullins, j. c. leyendecker"
>>> out = pipeline(prompt=prompt, **SafetyConfig.MAX)
```

<Tip>

Make sure to check out the Stable Diffusion [Tips](overview#tips) section to learn how to explore the tradeoff between scheduler speed and quality, and how to reuse pipeline components efficiently!

</Tip>

## StableDiffusionPipelineSafe

[[autodoc]] StableDiffusionPipelineSafe
	- all
	- __call__

## StableDiffusionSafePipelineOutput

[[autodoc]] pipelines.stable_diffusion_safe.StableDiffusionSafePipelineOutput
	- all
	- __call__
