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Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by ilaksh »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #152
Auracle wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It absolutely works for things other than naked and cartoon women. Here are some generations of my daughter and dog (together!). I believe most of these are from a fine tuned model of them and not an extracted LoRA, though I use that sometimes too: https://imgur.com/a/naHgnel

The space one without headphones is particularly cool. I use it for D&D art generation. I can have a piece of art that somewhat matches every location/scene I have planned. If things don't match my plans I can generate 8 images and pick the best in about 2 minutes. I talk to a lot of other DMs who use it in a similar way. It's not great with specific details, I plan to commission someone to draw the party when the ca…

Have you tried XL as a test for handling specific details?

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by vouaobrasil »

pzo wrote: post #59
vouaobrasil wrote: post #11

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…

A lot of downvotes. I can relate to it a little bit. During beginning of covid I was in SE Asia at airbnb that didn't have laundry machine - since in SE Asia you don't need it generally because there is so many cheap per kg laundry services around. When for the first month I had to hand wash my clothes I really appreciated having a laundry machine after moving to another airbnb that had one - you take some things for…

Yes, humans take many things for granted. That's why it's better to experience a lack of things sometimes because we are just wired to move onto the next thing.

As for the downvotes, I don't mind. I try and present a critical view of technology, but I expect the downvotes because almost everyone here has the perspective that technology is a tool and progress is generally a good thing, which are two statements that I wholeheartedly reject.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by ilaksh »

mt3ck wrote: post #99

Is there anything like this for the vector landscape? This may just be due to the iterative denoising approach a lot of these models take but they only seem to work well when creating raster style images. In my experience when you ask them to create logos, shirt designs, illustrations, they tend to not work as well and introduce a lot of artifacts, distortions, incorrect spellings etc.

There are SD models tunes for vector like raster output. And XL has specifically focused on this use case as one of the improvements. Try SDXL 1 on Clipdrop or Dreamstudio.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by birracerveza »

BudaDude wrote: post #123
sdflhasjd wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Well, yes, kind of.

Catgirl images, to be precise.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by hospitalJail »

lacker wrote: post #40

I'm out of date on the image-generating side of AI, but I'd like to check things out. What's the best tool for image generation that's available on a website right now? Ie, not a model that I have to run locally.

There are toy AI things, but there is nothing quite like Stable Diffusion running on Colab. Lots of people recommended Midjourney but that is like playing with MSpaint. If you can get Stable Diffusion going with Automatic1111, its AAA tier. Especially with Control-net, and dreambooth, but that is part 2.

Google: The Last Ben Stable Diffusion Colab

for a way to not run it locally, but get all the features.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by hospitalJail »

thepaulthomson wrote: post #96

Midjourney is still going to be hard to beat imo. Comparing SD to MJ is a little unfair considering their applications and flexibility, but I do really enjoy the "out of the box" experience that comes with MJ.

MJ quality is significantly worse. Everything has the Pixar look and barely follows the prompt. Its nice for a toy, but SD with Automatic1111 is miles ahead of MJ.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by hhjinks »

jamesdwilson wrote: post #39

Still can't draw hands correctly it looks like.

Hands are generally a non-issue at this point. You can just inpaint them and use a negative prompt LoRA to get good hands in just a few attempts. That is, if you don't just get good enough hands right away. That happens surprisingly often.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by __loam »

I_am_uncreative wrote: post #142
__loam wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol. I hate this industry sometimes. It's not obvious, to me at least, that our society should accept the automation of the production of culture. Maybe I'm a luddite or whatever lazy quip you'd like to use, but I prefer the story of a human mastering a skill and producing something beyond contextless aesthetic sludge.

Yeah, that's why I always laugh when I see people use cars instead of walking 100 miles. It's an inspiring story for people to do marathons, and cars devalue that.

Imagine talking about artistic expression like it's just a fucking car trip that should be automated.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by cmdr2 »

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.

Easy Diffusion (previously cmdr2 UI) can run SDXL in 768x768 in about 7 GB of VRAM. And SDXL 512x512 in about 5 GB of VRAM.

Regular SD can run in less than 2 GB of VRAM with Easy Diffusion.

1. Installation (no dependencies, python etc): https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion#installation

2. Enable beta to get access to SDXL: https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion/wiki/The-beta...

3. Use the "Low" VRAM Usage model in the Settings tab.

Re: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

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Post by addandsubtract »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #38
tmaly wrote: post #10

I will wait for the automatic1111 web ui version

TBH I was hoping the community would take the opportunity to move to the diffusers format... You get deduplication, easy swapping of stuff like VAEs, faster loading, and less ambiguity about what exactly is inside a monolithic .safetensors file. And this all seems more important since SDXL is so big, and split between two models anyway.

SD.Next (vlad fork of auto1111) switched to diffusers.
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