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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by vintermann »

mkaic wrote: post #98
badsectoracula wrote: post #44

Is there any way to download this on my PC and run it offline? Something like a command-line tool like $ ./something "cow flying in space" > cow-in-space.png that runs with local-only data (i.e. no internet access, no DRM, no weird API keys, etc like pretty much every AI-related application i've seen recently) would be neat.

Yes, that's actually the biggest reason this is such a cool announcement! You just need to download the model checkpoints from HuggingFace[0] and follow the instructions on their Github repo[1] and and you should be good to go. You basically just need to clone the repo, set up a conda environment, and make the weights available to the scripts they provide. [0] https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion [1] https…

You need a decent GPU, though. I suspect my 6080MiB won't cut it any longer :(

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by dinosaurdynasty »

nelsondev wrote: post #153
bluejellybean wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity. This isn't a new idea, and it has some very obvious drawbacks, but I don't see much of a way around the issue. The handshake could work great for something like official news releases, but for other instances that might come up in court, say, dash cam footage…

Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

Do politicians understand blockchains?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by derac »

tastemykungfu wrote: post #82
suby wrote: post #73

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There will be a huge and unkillable market for non-AI generated pornography, even if people cannot tell the difference in an AB test. The demand will be too strong and I don't think there will be much outcry to ban it if it's all consenting adults.

Curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion.

A quick Google shows an estimate that it was a 100 billion dollar market in 2017. Seems there is a lot of demand.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by vintermann »

Baeocystin wrote: post #57
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #22

DALL-E 2 just got smoked. Anyone with a graphics card isn't going to pay to generate images, or have their prompts blocked because of the overly aggressive anti-abuse filter, or have to put up with the DALL-E 2 "signature" in the corner. It makes me wonder how OpenAI is going to work around this because this makes DALL-E 2 a very uncompetitive proposition. Except, of course, for people without graphics cards, but it'…

DALL-E's filters are so harsh that I find myself often in the situation where I don't even understand how what I prompted could possibly be in violation. It's a novel feeling, but utterly stifling when it comes to actual creativity, and I'm not even trying to push any NSFW boundaries, just explore the artspace. Once I can run unfiltered on my own GPU, DALL-E will never get used by me again.

The usual modern Google experience: they won't tell you what you did wrong.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by indymike »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

Corollary: If you did not make it, someone else would have anyway.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by squeaky-clean »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #76
egypturnash wrote: post #41

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It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.

I have a friend who works as an artist and he's excited and nervous about this. But also he's trying to learn how to use these well. If you try these AI out, there's definitely an art to writing good prompts that gets what you actually want. Hopefully these AI will become just another brush in the artist's palette rather than a replacement. I hope these end up similar to the relationship between Google and programmin…

Replying to myself because I just had a chat with him about this. He's thinking of getting a high end GPU now, lol.

Some ideas of how this could be useful in the future to assist artists:

Quickly fleshing out design mockups/concepts is the obvious first one that you can do right now.

An AI stamp generator. Say you're working on a digital painting of a flower field. You click the AI menu, "Stamp", a textbox opens up and you type "Monarch butterfly. Facing viewer. Monet style painting." And you get a selection of ai generated images to stamp into your painting.

Fill by AI. Sketch the details of a house, select the Fill tool, select AI, click inside one of the walls of the house, a textbox pops up, you write "pre-war New York brick wall with yellow spray painted graffiti"

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by barbecue_sauce »

criddell wrote: post #136
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #74

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You'll need a GPU. One with a LOT of RAM, like an RTX 3090, which has 24 GB.

Would a Mac Pro with a Radeon Pro W5700X with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory work?

It says that NVIDIA chips are recommended but that they are working on optimizations for AMD. This implies to me that it probably involves CUDA stuff and getting it to run on a Radeon would be potentially difficult (I am not an expert on the current state of CUDA to AMD compatibility, though).

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by cypress66 »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

> Why bother asking people not to? I guess if it helps you sleep at night that you tried, I guess?

They obviously are aware. They just put all that so they don't get "canceled". It's just virtue signaling and covering your ass.

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