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Re: This house does not exist

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post #16

Noob questions: Are these images that cheap to generate (once the model is trained) that we can get a new one fast on each browser refresh? Are all the _this x doesn't exist_ generators based on similar scripts, only the training datasets differ, or are they somewhat tuned for the specific domain?

Generate time is a touch too high right now to do it live unless you're userbase is exceptionally patient but you could run a batch process across a bunch of machines for a while to achieve a similar effect.

Re: This house does not exist

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I'm waiting for the crossover with McMansion Hell where somebody uses similar image generation to generate the exteriors and interiors of McMansions.

Judging by recent generations of McMansions in my part of the U.S., that technology was "perfected" some time ago.

I'm waiting for Zoning Boards, Planning Commissions, etc. to get their hands on that tech. - and (BIG ASK!) outright ban construction of anything which looks like it might have been generated by it.

Re: This house does not exist

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It's interesting to me, the model does not know what a house is like, it knows what pictures of houses are like. So it does a good job of making pictures that look like pictures of houses. But if you look closely, a lot of the details are really weird, unbuildable, or just non-sensical. All of the image-gen models have this problem - look at the hands and faces in the generated images of people and there are often bi…

> a lot of the details are really weird, unbuildable, or just non-sensical.

You would see a lot more of these on the images that didn't make the gallery.

Re: This house does not exist

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post #12

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems to only generate luxury homes in a contemporary minimalist / modernist architectural style. Not once did it generate anything resembling a Tudor mansion or Victorian cottage or Midwestern rancher or split level. Nothing really wrong with that and it's neat anyways, but seem to represent its own sort of strange bias in a sense.

If it was done text-to-image, what you see is the result of using the same prompt.

E.g. in Stable Diffusion, from a single prompt like "modern residential interior, concrete, glass, wood", you can generate a vast number of images, using different seed values.

The images will have something in common due to the prompt.

The Tudor mansions are almost certainly there in the training data, but not being selected for.

Re: This house does not exist

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post #7

Neat, but feels like it was trained or prompted for luxury homes. I clicked threw a couple dozen images but everything had that style of multi-million dollar mansion/condo with a pool and only glass for walls. Nothing even remotely suburban or rural. Curious if this is due to the prompts (assuming this is SD sourced) or due to the training of the AI model.

This is the intention: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1566887688241815552?t=8y...
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