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Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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post #31

How long is the generation taking on say a 2021 MacBook M1 Pro?

Just another datapoint, my M2 Air with 24GB RAM takes around 75-80 seconds.

Thanks for the replies! M1 Pro with 32G and looking forward to firing this up! I wonder if the images will rival the “quality” of what you get with MidJourney..? I don’t know much about any of this ML stuff so not really sure how it all works or how close this might be in the details etc of what Midjourney does..

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the real questions come out. Seriously though, I imagine this is less a case of whether this specific implementation permits pornography, but whether any porn was included in the dataset it was trained on. No matter how good AI is, it only knows what it knows.

"Stable Diffusion" is referring to one specific set of models, which were trained on a dataset including some porn. The official implementation has a second model that detects pornography, and replaces outputs including it with a picture of this dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ (Not kidding). Removing that is a really simple a one line change in the official script.

I guess the question is whether this toggle is available in the GUI, or if someone has to edit source code

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

#43

I can confirm that this works great on the M1 Max. It has been taking less than a minute to run the model and generate the images. So far I have been really satisfied with the output. Let's please make one-click installers the norm for future technology. I love nerding out, but wading through dependency hell is not worth it most of the time.

You're right. On top of that, python dependency / package management is a joke.

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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This really is a one-click installer, which is excellent. As far as I know it's the first and only one for M1. It's quite a polished UI, but there are a lot of features missing. The first ones that come to mind are:

- No way to specify a seed. This is an important part of SD workflows, letting you redo an image with a slightly tweaked a prompt.

- No way to specify a custom model. Alternative models (such as Waifu Diffusion) are fun to play with too.

- No way to generate batches of images.

- No way to specify which sampler to use.

- No way to adjust the weight of specific sub-phrases, or use negative weights.

There's also no img2img yet, but it sounds like that's a planned feature.

Other GUIs such as https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui, https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui have many more features - but not all will be trivial to port to M1.

P.S.: For the people asking - yes, it can do NSFW images. I checked.

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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post #18

Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed. Features: - Full data privacy - nothing is sent to the cloud - Clean and easy to use UI - One click installer - No dependencies needed - Multiple image sizes - Optimized for M1/M2 Chips - Runs locally on your computer

Does it work with pornographic or potentially pornographic prompts?

Yes (I checked)

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

#47

I can confirm that this works great on the M1 Max. It has been taking less than a minute to run the model and generate the images. So far I have been really satisfied with the output. Let's please make one-click installers the norm for future technology. I love nerding out, but wading through dependency hell is not worth it most of the time.

You're right. On top of that, python dependency / package management is a joke.

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Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

how is this possible without a dedicated gPU? thought stable diffusion would require far more horsepower

They have integrated GPU that I believe Apple claimed was comparable to RTX 3090 (perhaps since debunked though or at the least maybe a misleading claim).

I believe thats cherry picked data. More specifically apple says it’s comparable to the 3090x at a given power budget of 100 watts. They don’t mention that the 3090 goes up to 360 watts.

Re: Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

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post #35

Guess I'll ask. Any Linux love here? AMD appreciated as well. Seems like maybe a job for an Appimage? Docker maybe?

There are a couple decent videos on YouTube that walk through getting SD to run on Linux with AMD cards. The best one works with Arch but the same general steps should be compatible.
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