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Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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I will wait for the automatic1111 web ui version

It's already supported in automatic1111 (see recent updates), and someone in the community will convert it to the automatic1111 format within minutes/hours after it's released on huggingface.

The huggingface release works in A1111 directly, there is nothing to convert

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#122
post #66

Still can't draw hands correctly it looks like.

I can't say for 1.0 but in 0.9 hands get fairly often rendered perfectly. It's not always right but it's way better than any other earlier release (where it's usually consistently wrong).

Both 0.9 and 1.0 seem to frequently merge fingers when hands are clasped; they don’t do nearly as much of other errors with them as earlier SD models.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#123

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?

For bland stock photos and other "general-purpose" image generation, DALLE-2/Bing/Adobe etc are... the okayest. SD (with just standard model weights) is particularly weak here because of the small model size. If you want to get arty, then state of the art for out-of-the-box typing in a prompt and clicking "generate" is probably MidJourney. But if you're willing to spend some more time playing around with the open-sou…

> By sheer number of image generations? Take a guess...

Cat images right?

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#124
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

whats the memory usage of sdxl ?

Runs great on my 10GB 3080 FTW3. ComfyUI moreso than auto1111.

Auto1111 (latest on git) OOMed my 3080 running the base-xl on 1024x1024 unfortunately. Granted, my xorg takes up almost 950 MB on the precious VRAM. Did you get it to run using A1111 on the FTW3 without OOMing it?

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#125

Still can't draw hands correctly it looks like.

Eh it’s not a huge deal with stable diffusion because you can inpaint. So you mask out the bad hands and generate a few dozen iterations that merge perfectly with the rest of the image. You’re bound to get something that looks good.

With SD2.1 I’d generate 100 or so images using inpainting and the “good fingers” was about 1% hit rate. If it’s up to 10% that’d be great because generating 10 images takes just a few seconds on an A100

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#126
post #71

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

Isn't this it? https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...

It only replies, "module 'diffusers' has no attribute 'StableDiffusionXLPipeline'"

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#127

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 pa…

Enforcing artificial scarcity is idiotic and counter progressive. There will be other things that will continue to be uncommon that humans will continue to appreciate. This is what human progress looks like. Imagine someone said this when agriculture started up- “The great thing about fruits and vegetables is that they taste so sweet the few times we find them. We shouldn’t grow them in bulk”

AI Art models are completely dependent on human labor to function. "Out-competing" human generated images will damage the commons and make it harder to train these models over time as they push human creative labor out of the market, if we believe it's even competitive.

Personally I think this guy has a point and he's pointing to something that I don't believe a lot of ai art advocates have considered: the attention economy. There isn't actually any scarcity in the current market for artistic content. There are literally millions of people producing art every day, and the market is very winner take all. There are few artists who are able to support themselves on their work, and their skills are exceptional and specifically in demand. My theory is that the supply of AI generated content will be so vast, and the perception around it will be that it's low effort and low quality, that so called AI artists are going to have trouble distinguishing themselves in a market where they're saturating it and all using the same models. I think your perception of this market is flawed. Art is not a fungible good like food or clothing.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#128

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 pa…

Seeing the "less art needs to exist" perspective is certainly a first time for me on this topic.

It would be a real shame if low effort AI spam buried people who have dedicated their lives to artistic expression.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#129

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 pa…

I don't think that trying to convince people to starve themselves a little as your opening analogy is good for your argument.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

#130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already supported in automatic1111 (see recent updates), and someone in the community will convert it to the automatic1111 format within minutes/hours after it's released on huggingface.

The huggingface release works in A1111 directly, there is nothing to convert

Yep. Just download the safetensor version.
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