Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
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Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
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Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#2Hey HN, one of the team members here!
I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1]
As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution of things that it's seen. But from the artist perspective, the model's ability to blend two existing styles into something so distinctly new is so incredible (and not to mention also commercially useful!)
Anyways, happy to answer any question, thoughts, or concerns!
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Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#3The explainer video about gans is top-notch! Excited for Arrowmancer!
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#4Hey HN, one of the team members here! I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1] As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution o…
Why do stuff like this never come down from the web? I'd pay for a program I could download and use with my own image files.
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#5Hey HN, one of the team members here! I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1] As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution o…
You mention it took two weeks to get to the point that we see in the article.
Does this mean two weeks of development, or two weeks to generate the images we're seeing? Or maybe did you train the model for two weeks? That point just wasn't exactly clear for me.
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#6Hey HN, one of the team members here! I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1] As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution o…
Why do stuff like this never come down from the web? I'd pay for a program I could download and use with my own image files.
Same reason the Coca-Cola recipe is not published nor made freely available by the Coca-Cola corporation.
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#7Hey HN, one of the team members here! I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1] As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution o…
Is the code or any of the models available to the public? I'd love to mess with this on a local GPU cluster.
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#8Links to related projects in anime art generation for those interested:
Waifu Labs v2, referenced in this post (generate amazing custom anime face images): https://waifulabs.com (write-up is the above link: https://waifulabs.com/blog/ai-creativity)
This Anime Does Not Exist (AI-generated anime-style artwork): https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai (write-up https://www.gwern.net/Faces#extended-stylegan2-danbooru2019-... and https://nearcyan.com/this-anime-does-not-exist)
This Waifu Does Not Exist (AI-generated anime-style faces): https://thiswaifudoesnotexist.net (write-up: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#twdne)
There's also a lot of literate on e.g. automatic manga coloration, auto-translation, image superresolution, anime frame interpolation, and much more. Worth checking out some places like https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimeResearch/ if you're interested!
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#9The explainer video about gans is top-notch! Excited for Arrowmancer!
(link for the lazy: https://youtu.be/Pab8pG5WbXQ)
Thanks so much! It's done by our fantastic animator[1]!
GANs are quite interesting and we didn't see many approachable explainer videos targeted at lay people, so we decided to make one ourselves!
Re: Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
#10Hey HN, one of the team members here! I hope you all enjoy playing with the new and improved generator! We've been hard at work improving the model quality since the last time the site was posted[1] As both a professional fantasy illustrator & software engineer, I find the concept of AI creativity so fascinating. On one hand, I know that mathematically AI only can hallucinate images that fit within the distribution o…
You mention it took two weeks to get to the point that we see in the article. Does this mean two weeks of development, or two weeks to generate the images we're seeing? Or maybe did you train the model for two weeks? That point just wasn't exactly clear for me.
2 weeks to train the model!
Development took on-and-off roughly 2 years to achieve the quality you see today.