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SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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post #11

I'm gonna wait until this is released as a model. This is really cool though!

From TFA: > Download the model weights and code on Hugging Face[0], currently being released under a non-commercial research license that permits personal, non-commercial use. [0] https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo

I am fucking blind, thanks!

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

#23

SDXL is already very very slow when compared to SD 1.5. They are claiming 200ms for 512x512 image in SDXL on A100. We need SD 1.5 turbo for even faster generation.

It _would_ be nice if they offered 512/768/1024 px variants of the models. I frequently don’t actually need the full 1024 px as it just needs to look good enough for a chat thumbnail. Then I could upscale it manually later. There’s other models like Kandinsky but it’s not super convenient to use multiple models with different code and what not.

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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Does anyone have any idea of when/if there will be a simple way to get commercial access in one step? Like an API or something? Or if they want to charge for it, then maybe a web check out?

It's interesting that they finally decided to try to make something commercially restricted.

Do they have a watermark or anything that they can use to track down people who use without a license?

Also, is there anything like an open source (commercial allowed) effort at reproducing this?

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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SDXL is already very very slow when compared to SD 1.5. They are claiming 200ms for 512x512 image in SDXL on A100. We need SD 1.5 turbo for even faster generation.

I haven't found SDXL to be inherently much slower than 1.5, besides the obvious 4x slowdown from having twice the linear resolution.

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it looks like the enshittification of StabilityAI is in full force by now. Especially considering the continually worse licensing. I expect if they ever manage to release an image gen model that's an objective improvement, lets say 80% as good as dalle3, it will be subscription API only.

Are you serious? I'm using Stability in production: they kept their SDXL beta model which was capable of SDXL 1.0 level prompt adherence at a fraction of the cost up for months after was reasonable for a one-off undocumented beta, and it was a huge boon to my product. Then a few weeks back they went and quietly cut costs to 1/5th or so what they were for SDXL and released a model that produced similar quality outputs…

Sounds like they’re doing the same thing OpenAI is doing. Claiming to favor open models but the reality is they’re pumping growth by reducing costs and this lowering prices. They want a massive chunk of this new market, all of it if they can get it. Their perceived valuation then becomes a matter of how many eyeballs they have looking at segments of their website to advertise to, or how many data points they can collect on their users to sell to advertisers. It’s unlikely they can capture the whole market and still make a chunky enough profit to satisfy investors if they also intend to keep prices high enough without needing to resort to enshitification.

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

#28

Based on the demo, that's... incredibly fast. Literally generating images faster than I can type a prompt. They've clearly got a set seed, so they're probably caching request, but even with prompts that they couldn't possibly have cached it's within a second or so.

I hope playgroundai.com adopts this asap, but not sure they can with that non-commercial bit...

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

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post #18

The license is non-commercial, but: > For clarity, Derivative Works do not include the output of any Model. https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo/blob/main/LICE... Doesn't that mean that generated images from it should be fine for commercial?

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there was a court ruling that says AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. So you could use them, but couldn't stop anyone else from doing what they want with them

> there was a court ruling

What jurisdiction? USA?

Re: SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

#30

SDXL is already very very slow when compared to SD 1.5. They are claiming 200ms for 512x512 image in SDXL on A100. We need SD 1.5 turbo for even faster generation.

SDXL Turbo also uses a distilled version of SDXL so it gets a speed bonus from that too.
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