Stable Diffusion macOS native app • Hacker News Board

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by kmlx » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 8:33 AM UTC

stereo wrote: post #15

aortega wrote: post #5

What's the difference between this and the Diffusion bee? The DB project has not been updated in a while.

As far as I can tell, the advantages of Gauss are that it runs Apple's more efficient ml-stable-diffusion engine, and that the GUI is better. The disadvantage is that you (currently) have to build it yourself in a multi-step compiling process that involves "goo".

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ai-photo/id6444911377?mt=12

i’m using this one. pretty good so far. same use of efficient apple stable diff engine.

as well as this monster on mobile:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64...

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by morjom » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 8:55 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #27

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AI art is, in my opinion, an accessory to thievery, and only if the dataset and model that produced it was trained on copyrighted work. I would've preferred if they had had a sign-up/opt-in phase, or just using open license and public domain pictures. But the damage has been done and they sure as hell aren't going to revert any of the changes.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by morjom » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 8:59 AM UTC

bulbosaur123 wrote: post #30

chx wrote: post #27

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Let's assume it is. And? I'm still going to use it. And so will everyone else.

Until law makers catch up, which is a long time if there's no other negative than that some artists need to up their game or find another job.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by LASR » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:03 AM UTC

n8cpdx wrote: post #9

Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true. Apple is Apple, so when they say jump, developers jump. But if any other company tried pulling what they’re pulling with SwiftUI, they’d be getting a swift kick in the behind by their dev community. It feels like their UWP moment; nice idea, bad execution. This isn’t to criticize the project; I lik…

UWP failed and continues to fail because Microsoft themselves are not invested into it.

Most of the apps that come out of Microsoft use something else. Eg: Vscode, Teams etc, Office etc.

It’s not the case with Apple at least from what I can see publicly. Not an Apple fanboy by any stretch.

But I’ve been burned by Microsoft when they introduced Silverlight as the platform for developing Windows Phone 7 apps. Only to deprecate it in Windows Phone 8. A lot of developers were not happy at that time.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by sekai » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:17 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #27

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From whom, specifically? People who claim this don't really understand how AI is generating images.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by dontknowwhyihn » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:18 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #27

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AI artworks are derivative, transformative works and therefore not theft

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by sekai » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

morjom wrote: post #33

bulbosaur123 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's assume it is. And? I'm still going to use it. And so will everyone else.

Until law makers catch up, which is a long time if there's no other negative than that some artists need to up their game or find another job.

Why would law regulate how art is made? Should they ban photoshop also?

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by glerk » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:21 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #27

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If this is the case then almost all art is stolen art because it is inspired by previous art. Maybe it is time to rethink the notion that ideas can be owned or stolen.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by kmlx » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:23 AM UTC

exsf0859 wrote: post #23

Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active development: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64... Be aware that there is a bug in macOS 13.2b1 that makes Draw Things unusable on that version of macOS. Hopefully Apple will fix that soon.

be advised that it’s quite slow on an ipad if it doesn’t have an m1. it was faster on my iphone 14pro than on my ipad mini :|

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Post by tcmb » Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:29 AM UTC

exsf0859 wrote: post #28

exsf0859 wrote: post #23

Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active development: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64... Be aware that there is a bug in macOS 13.2b1 that makes Draw Things unusable on that version of macOS. Hopefully Apple will fix that soon.

In my opinion Draw Things is the best stable diffusion app currently available for macOS/iOS. It's free, it is available in the App Store, it manages downloading models and weights, it supports a wide selection of popular models as well as custom weights, and it supports inpainting, text2image, and image2image. It has some oddities: it uses a sqlite database to store generated images rather than the more traditional…

Appears to be https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp