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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

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hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

If you are using the dev model, the licence isn't open source.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#112
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The playground is a drag. After accepting being forced to sign up, attach my GitHub, and hand over my email address, I entered the desired prompt and waited with anticipation.. Only to see a black screen and how much it's going to cost per megapixel. Bummer. After seeing what was generated in the blog post I was excited to try it! Now feeling disappointed. I was hoping it'd be more like https://play.go.dev . Good luc…

https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-dev is working very nicely. No sign-up.

Thanks this one actually works, pretty amazing.

Remarkably better than the "DrawThings" iPhone app (my only reference point).

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#114

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

The playground is a drag. After accepting being forced to sign up, attach my GitHub, and hand over my email address, I entered the desired prompt and waited with anticipation.. Only to see a black screen and how much it's going to cost per megapixel. Bummer. After seeing what was generated in the blog post I was excited to try it! Now feeling disappointed. I was hoping it'd be more like https://play.go.dev . Good luc…

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Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#115
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Bit annoying signup...Github only...and github account creation is currently broken "Something went wrong". Took two tries and two browsers...

I had the same "something went wrong" experience, but on retrying the "sign in to run" button, it was fine and had logged me in.

Gave me a credit of 2USD to play with.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#116

hi friends! burkay from fal.ai here. would like to clarify that the model is NOT built by fal. all credit should go to Black Forest Labs ( https://blackforestlabs.ai/ ) which is a new co by the OG stable diffusion team. what we did at fal is take the model and run it on our inference engine optimized to run these kinds of models really really fast. feel free to give it a shot on the playgrounds. https://fal.ai/models…

You also might want to "clarify" that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other "open source" models). If you want to call it something, try "open weights", although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH. Also, everybody should remember that these models are not copyrightable and you should never agree to any license for them...

> it is not open source

It would be nice here if you give some examples of what you call open source model. Please ;) Because the impression is that these things do not exist, it's just a dream which does not deserve such a nice term..

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#117

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You also might want to "clarify" that it is not open source (and neither are any of the other "open source" models). If you want to call it something, try "open weights", although the usage restrictions make even that a HUGE FUCKING STRETCH. Also, everybody should remember that these models are not copyrightable and you should never agree to any license for them...

> it is not open source It would be nice here if you give some examples of what you call open source model. Please ;) Because the impression is that these things do not exist, it's just a dream which does not deserve such a nice term..

As far as I know, none have been released. And it doesn't even really make sense, because, as I said, the models aren't copyrightable to begin with and therefore aren't licensable either.

However, plenty of open source software exists. The fact that open source models don't exist doesn't excuse attempts to falsely claim the prestige of the phrase "open source".

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#118

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Congrats Burkay - the model is very impressive. One area I’d like to see improved in a flux v2 is knowledge of artist styles. Flux cannot respond to requests asking for paintings in the style of David Hockney, Norman Rockwell, Edgar Degas, — it seems to have no fine art training at all. I’d bet that fine art training would further improve the compositional skills of the model, plus it would open up a range of uses th…

Have those artists given permission for their styles to be slurped up into a model?

Florentine art schools would like a word - they’ve been teaching painters by having them copy masters since the 16th century.

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#119
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Have those artists given permission for their styles to be slurped up into a model?

Give me a sec, I will contact Edgar Degas with my telegraph.

Truly an API call I would pay for

Re: Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

#120

Censored a bit, but not completely. I can get occasional boobs out of it, but sometimes it just gives the black output.

This gives you no info on how the model works. what is being applied is fal's post-inference "is this NSFW?" filter model

So your censorship investigation (via boobs) is testing a completely different, unrelated, model.

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