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Post by paimapi »

arjie wrote: post #143
paimapi wrote: post #49

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plus the energy cost - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-a... >Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car. In contrast, the least carbon-intensive text generation model they examined was responsible for as much CO2 as driving 0.0006 mi…

So every day the people of Vermont emit more CO2 just commuting than all image generation through OpenAI per week. Nice. That does put it in perspective. It’s really efficient.

yep, what our climate really needs is another carbon emitter similar to an entire state's worth of vehicles just so people can not pay artists or make dumb images of themselves ripping off some artistic style like Studio Ghibli. that is so much more of a social good than people being able to make it to work and earn a living

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Post by sbarre »

RobRivera wrote: post #28
echelon wrote: post #20

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This is an artificial modern world problem. For thousands of years people have told embellished stories, and humanity has thrived upon it. Tall tales, fish stories. Heck, that's still the average person's experience unless they've really worked their critical thinking muscles. Today's working adults are used to the short thirty-year "safe space" of smartphones and internet. We grew up in a temporary meta stability wh…

[Cry me a River] No thank you

Good, because we need that river to make AI images!

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Post by Escapado »

ActionHank wrote: post #141
meerita wrote: post #111

I've really enjoyed using AI to generate images. For example, Long time ago, I read an amazing five-book saga called Riverworld, and I used AI to recreate many scenes, places, and ideas from the story. Seeing the books come to life through hundreds of images was a great experience. Definitely one of the coolest things to enjoy in 2026. Try it with your favorite books.

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I just finished the 2nd book of the Stormlight Chronicles by Brandon Sanderson. Sadly I have had aphantasia all my life and therefore I can not visually imagine things - I do have a very loud inner monologue though and can imagine the voices of the characters.

I just tried out the new version of ChatGPT to generate images for the main characters in a concept art style and for me it makes the story come to life a bit more.

I also run a Pathfinder Campaign every other week and have found great pleasure visualizing scenes in this way for myself. Sometimes I share them with the players and so far the feedback on that has been very positive.

I wish I could picture things in my mind but at least now I have something that can help me with my handicap!

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Post by cchance »

bluegatty wrote: post #144
conradludgate wrote: post #18

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This an oddly cynical comment, that I think says more about the observer than the observed. People are having fun making images. Like they do all sorts of things on the web. Making an image is as simple as visiting a web-page. That's it.

This i did like 15 images just today, mostly just editing and fixing one of my wifes photos that she wanted the lighting and stuff leaned up with so i decided to test out 2.5... it did a great job, but that was easily 15 images 1 of which was the end result but all 15 count toward that figure, i'd honestly guess its more 1:100-1:500 that actually makes it outside the chatgpt servers

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Post by nozzlegear »

DrammBA wrote: post #242
bluegatty wrote: post #144

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This an oddly cynical comment, that I think says more about the observer than the observed. People are having fun making images. Like they do all sorts of things on the web. Making an image is as simple as visiting a web-page. That's it.

If twitter and reddit have demonstrated anything is that the fun people are having with image generation is not healthy.

How so? I don't have twitter or reddit, what are people doing?

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Post by jjcm »

raincole wrote: post #270
jjcm wrote: post #253

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It's both. I have several models loaded into diffui. Which one each prompt uses is determined based on user preference over time. Whichever image is currently at the top of any image node stack marks a win for the model that generated it, I assign each model an ELO score based on that, and I bias the chance each model is selected based on their ELO score. Right now gpt-image-2 is better than my own model, and it serv…

Oh, you're the dev of diffui? It's completely off-topic, but I've notice that RMB -> Download image will download an .png but it's actually a .webp and it can cause issues (e.g. file explorer doesn't show thumbnail correctly).

Indeed I am! Also nice catch - should have a fix up in the next hour. Hit me up with any other reqs - j@diffui.ai

Edit: confirmed that the download should be fixed now - should be properly a png now.

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Post by dinfinity »

SirMaster wrote: post #266
Starlevel004 wrote: post #118

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I feel like the reason I dislike reading or find reading boring is because I can't. But it's just a theory. Meanwhile I absolutely love movies.

This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia.

I have a friend who only reads fiction for which he's seen the accompanying show first because he otherwise has no visual reference for the characters and environments.

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Post by sensanaty »

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #35
conradludgate wrote: post #18

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Having a lot of fun with my son using an image of him and dressing him in all kinds of costumes. How is that depressing to you?

I wouldn't be uploading pics of my child to platforms that have historically used CSAM to train their models, but hey you do you

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Post by geooff_ »

Still far too expensive.

At this point, I'm much more interested in seeing releases for models chasing down prices on "good enough" to unlock new use-cases than I am SOTA.

I've been using Grok Imagine V1 in prod for months now as its quality for my use-case is already more than enough.

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Post by nozzlegear »

cobolcomesback wrote: post #256
bluegatty wrote: post #144

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This an oddly cynical comment, that I think says more about the observer than the observed. People are having fun making images. Like they do all sorts of things on the web. Making an image is as simple as visiting a web-page. That's it.

Yea, “fun”, sure. I’m sure none of those billions of images were used to lie, mislead, or cheat anyone. I’m sure none of those images were used to create fake news narratives, used in advertisements to bait people into buying fake products, or create misleading mockups of rental properties. Definitely not. Nevermind the fact that the examples in OpenAI’s blog post are examples of creating images that have no plausibl…

Yesterday my wife used ChatGPT to generate an image of our cat as a toilet, which was very funny for the both of us. She's also used it to turn him into a basketball getting dunked, a tsetse fly, a clown and a napkin. It's hard to say whether she uses it more to generate inside joke images about our cat, or to generate mockup plans and layouts for her flower gardens, but it is safe to say she does it all for fun.
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