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Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by vouaobrasil »

This explosion of AI-generated imagery will result in an explosion of millions of fake images, obivously. Perhaps in the short-term this is fun, but in the long-term, we will lose a bit more scarcity, which is not that great in my opinion.

Isn't the best part of a meal eating after you've not had anything to eat for a while? The best part about a kiss that you've quenched the pain of missing your partner?

The best part of art is that you haven't seen anything good in a while?

Scarcity is an underappreciated gift to us, and the relative scarcity per capita is in a sense what drives us to connect with other people, so that we may be priveleged to witness the occasional spark of creativity from a person, which in turn tells us about that person.

Although that sort of viewpoint has been declining for some time due to the intensely capitalistic squeezing of every sort of human endeavor, AI brings this to a whole new level.

I think if those making this software thought a bit about this, they might second-guess whether it is truly right to release it. Just a thought.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by freediver »

I am completely uninformed in this space.

Would someone be kind to explain what the current state of the art in image generation is (how does this compare to Midjourney and others)?

How do open source models stack up?

Also what are the most common use cases for image generation?

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by naillo »

MasterScrat wrote: post #2

It’ll be "released" once the model weights show up on the repo or in HuggingFace… for now it’s "announced" It should appear here at some point, currently only the VAE was added: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai

You get access to the weights instantly if you apply for them. It's basically not a hurdle.

(I've been having fun with this for a few days. https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-... Not sure there's much of a difference with the 1.0 version.)

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by naillo »

jrflowers wrote: post #6

I hope someday there’s a version of this or something comparable to it that can run on <8gb consumer hardware. The main selling point of Stable Diffusion was its ability to run in that environment.

You can do this if you select the `pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()` option. See this https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by MasterScrat »

naillo wrote: post #14
MasterScrat wrote: post #2

It’ll be "released" once the model weights show up on the repo or in HuggingFace… for now it’s "announced" It should appear here at some point, currently only the VAE was added: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai

You get access to the weights instantly if you apply for them. It's basically not a hurdle. (I've been having fun with this for a few days. https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-... Not sure there's much of a difference with the 1.0 version.)

For 1.0? Where do you apply? Or are you talking about 0.9?

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by Ukv »

naillo wrote: post #14
MasterScrat wrote: post #2

It’ll be "released" once the model weights show up on the repo or in HuggingFace… for now it’s "announced" It should appear here at some point, currently only the VAE was added: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai

You get access to the weights instantly if you apply for them. It's basically not a hurdle. (I've been having fun with this for a few days. https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-... Not sure there's much of a difference with the 1.0 version.)

The ones you can apply for access to are the 0.9 weights, which have been available for a couple of weeks. Unless the SDXL 1.0 weights are also available by application somewhere that I'm unaware.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by liuliu »

freediver wrote: post #13

I am completely uninformed in this space. Would someone be kind to explain what the current state of the art in image generation is (how does this compare to Midjourney and others)? How do open source models stack up? Also what are the most common use cases for image generation?

SDXL 0.9 should be the state-of-the-art image generation model (in the open). It generates at 1024x1024 large resolution, with high coherency and good selection of styles out of box. It also has reasonable text-understanding comparing to other models.

That has been said, based on the configurations of these models, we are far from saturating what the best model can do. The problem is, FID is terrible metrics to evaluating these models so like LLM, we are a bit clueless about how to evaluate them now.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by liuliu »

jrflowers wrote: post #6

I hope someday there’s a version of this or something comparable to it that can run on <8gb consumer hardware. The main selling point of Stable Diffusion was its ability to run in that environment.

SDXL 0.9 runs on iPad Pro 8GiB just fine.
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