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Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

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The language of high-level art-direction can be way more complex than one might assume. I wonder how this model might cope with the following: ‘Decrease high-frequency features of background.’ ‘Increase intra-contrast of middle ground to foreground.’ ‘Increase global saturation contrast.’ ‘Increase hue spread of greens.’

They behave quite poorly, because the keywords used by the models are layman language not technical art or color correction/color grading-speak

Hopefully in a couple of years when things have matured more there will be more models capable of handling said requests

The most precise models are actually anime models because the users have got high standards for telling the machine what they expect of it and the databases are quite well annotated (booru tags)

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#132
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't we been here before? - see self driving cars.

LLMs and Image AIs are the opposite of self-driving cars. "Everybody" had concrete expectations for at least half a decade now that the moment where self-driving cars would surpass human ability was imminent, yet the tech hasn't lived up to it (yet). While practically nobody was expecting AI to be able to do the jobs of artists, programmers or poets anywhere near human level anytime soon, yet here we are.

If LLMs (etc.) had the same requirements and business models as AV cars they'd still be considered a failure. Nobody expects Stable Diffusion to have a 6-sigma accuracy rate*, nor do we expect ChatGPT to seamlessly integrate into a human community. The AV business model discourages individual or small scale participation, so we wouldn't even have SD (would anyone allow a single OSS developer to drive or develop an AV car? Ok, there's Comma, that's all there is on the OSS side).

* The amount of times that I've seem an 'impressive' selections of AI images that I consider a critical failure deserves it's own word. The AIs are impressive for even getting that far, it's just that some people have bad taste and pick the bad outputs.

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#133

These look awful! They are very displeasing aesthetically. They look like they were done by someone with absolutely no artistic ability. Clearly there is some technical interest here, but I just felt the need to point out the elephant in the room. They are very ugly .

I'm not an artist, but they look fine to me. I am not the kind of person who spends hours in a Gallery admiring the nuances of paintings or photos. However, at the level of detail I usually admire these things, the clown one looked interesting and the Monalisa one was funny. The strawberry seemed a bit weird, but I don't think I'd care for it even if it was perfect anyway. The wintery landscape I thought was pretty good and the red dog it delivered what was asked. Not sure how it could be much different than that.

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#134
post #90
post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

dreambooth perhaps?

Dreambooth is what I'm using now, but I think I remember the concept had a specific name, something like 'context transfer' or so (pretty sure that was not the term) and tools that were pretty good at it that came out before Dreambooth. If I could at least remember the term it might be easier to search for them. Dreambooth is ok at it, but it requires multiple images (you often read 30, but I've actually had decent r…

"textual inversion"

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#136
post #64
post #62

How does this work? When I run it on a machine with a GPU (pytorch, CUDA etc installed) I still see it downloading files for each prompt. Is the image being generated on the cloud somewhere or on my local machine? Why the downloads?

Shouldn't be downloads per prompt. Processing happens on your machine. It does download models as needed. A network call per prompt would be a bug.

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Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#137
post #64
post #62

How does this work? When I run it on a machine with a GPU (pytorch, CUDA etc installed) I still see it downloading files for each prompt. Is the image being generated on the cloud somewhere or on my local machine? Why the downloads?

Shouldn't be downloads per prompt. Processing happens on your machine. It does download models as needed. A network call per prompt would be a bug.

Is there a way to pre-download all models? I want to create a docker image and cache the models.

Also any way configure the generated file path beyond directory or directly pipe image from the CLI?

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#138

These look awful! They are very displeasing aesthetically. They look like they were done by someone with absolutely no artistic ability. Clearly there is some technical interest here, but I just felt the need to point out the elephant in the room. They are very ugly .

I love the cognitive dissonance between "you're just stealing people's art and modifying them slightly!" versus "AI art sucks and has no artistic value"
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