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Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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The 16GB (base model) M2 Pro Mini, despite its overall awesomeness (running DiffusionBee.app / etc)... does not meet Minimum System Requirements (Apple Silicon requires 32GB RAM).

So now I have to contemplate shopping for a new mac TWICE in one year (never happened before).

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

#3
There are already a number of local, inference options that are (crucially) open-source, with more robust feature sets.

And if the defense here is "but Auto1111 and Comfy don't have as user-friendly a UI", that's also already covered. https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

#4

The 16GB (base model) M2 Pro Mini, despite its overall awesomeness (running DiffusionBee.app / etc)... does not meet Minimum System Requirements (Apple Silicon requires 32GB RAM). So now I have to contemplate shopping for a new mac TWICE in one year (never happened before).

https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI - runs on Mac silicon, can squeeze out SDXL images on a 16gb mac with SSD-1B or Turbo models.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

#5
I realize it may be good marketing, but it's odd to have the fact that it's on device and offline be the primary differentiator when that's probably how most people use Stable Diffusion already.

I'd probably focus more on it being easy to install and use, as that's something that isn't done much. For me, if it doesn't have Controlnet, upscaling, some kind of face detailer, and preferably regional prompting, I'm out.

I also kind of wish all of these people that want to make their own SD generators would instead work on one of the open source ones that already exist.

While an app store might be a good idea, in a world with Auto111 and all of their extensions I think it's going to go over poorly with the Stable Diffusion community, for what it's worth.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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The 16GB (base model) M2 Pro Mini, despite its overall awesomeness (running DiffusionBee.app / etc)... does not meet Minimum System Requirements (Apple Silicon requires 32GB RAM). So now I have to contemplate shopping for a new mac TWICE in one year (never happened before).

Currently using SDXL (through Huggingface Diffusers) on an M1 16GB Mac. Takes on average 4-5mins to generate an image. It's usable.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

#8

There are already a number of local, inference options that are (crucially) open-source, with more robust feature sets. And if the defense here is "but Auto1111 and Comfy don't have as user-friendly a UI", that's also already covered. https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI

Also just Krita with the diffusion AI plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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post #5

I realize it may be good marketing, but it's odd to have the fact that it's on device and offline be the primary differentiator when that's probably how most people use Stable Diffusion already. I'd probably focus more on it being easy to install and use, as that's something that isn't done much. For me, if it doesn't have Controlnet, upscaling, some kind of face detailer, and preferably regional prompting, I'm out.…

I think there's probably a bunch of people who don't use things like A1111 because of the complexities of the download-this-which-downloads-this-which-downloads-this-then-you-manually-download-this-and-this setup model.

I can see how something simpler might appeal to new users, even if it doesn't appeal to existing users.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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post #5

I realize it may be good marketing, but it's odd to have the fact that it's on device and offline be the primary differentiator when that's probably how most people use Stable Diffusion already. I'd probably focus more on it being easy to install and use, as that's something that isn't done much. For me, if it doesn't have Controlnet, upscaling, some kind of face detailer, and preferably regional prompting, I'm out.…

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