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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Been playing with this for the past hour now on my RTX 2070. Each image takes about 10 seconds.

Results vary wildly but it can make some really great stuff occasionally. It's just infrequent enough to keep you going "one more prompt".

Super addicting.

Lookingforward to people implementing inpainting and all the stuff that lets you do.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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If I recall from the interview with Stability.ai's founder, he has more or less the same opinion, and that humans will adapt to the new technology as we always have. I figure "please don't abuse this technology" warning stickers are more CYA. It'll make the vast majority of judges look at a motion to dismiss and not blink an eye.

Historically, he is correct. It is easy to find people that were against TVs, Cars, Trains, Electric Cars. Those people were not entirely wrong with their logic. Trains and cars did make it much easier for scammers to come into a town and then leave quickly.

In terms of the equilibrium, this is certainly a true observation. However, historically speaking new technology can be extremely disruptive in the short-term as society figures out the new norms, and the power-structures are disrupted and then re-equilibrate.

Concretely, it's probably true that children born with this technology will have adapted to many of the negative (and positive) aspects of it. But the current generation of elites, politicians, and voters might have a harder time adapting.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Wait for the 4070, it should be around the perf of a 3080/maybe 4090 for ~500 bucks if rumors hold up. It is coming in a few months. NZXT used to make good pre-builts. Not sure which others have a good rep. DO NOT BUY DELL.

What's wrong with Dell? Is Lenovo a bad option as well? Does NZXT offer on-site service?

You aren't getting on-site service with a consumer product. There are plenty of 3rd party people who can service your computer, though. It's like Lego.

Dell uses crappy proprietary tech, poor quality components, and they have an all around bad reputation.

NZXT uses good components and they make some of the best cases you can buy.

I don't know much about Lenovo's desktop products.

You might try posting on reddit.com/r/suggestapc and ask about the best service contracts and high quality system integrators.

Edit: that particular reddit looks pretty dead actually. The big one is r/buildapcsales , you can take a look at their side bar or discord and ask around.

One more thing, GamersNexus on YouTube does reviews of pre builts and they are the best at this sort of thing. Their community is likely very helpful as well.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE...

The biggest issue with most pre-builts is terrible airflow making the expensive components throttle. The (Dell) Alienwares are some of the worst for this.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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You're going to need at least 10GB VRAM. My SFF pc with 4GB VRAM can only run dalle mini / craiyon :(

Not if you change the precision to float16. Should work on a smaller card. Tried on a 1080 with 8GB and it works well.

How would one do that?

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Sorry my bad, found the answer. One simply adds the following flags to the StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained call in the example: revision="fp16", torch_dtype=torch.float16

Found it in this blogpost: https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion

mempko thank you for your hint! I was about to drop a not insignificant amount of money on a new GPU.

What does one lose by using float16 representation? Does it make the images visually less detailed? Or how can one reason about this?

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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So how do I set up a server to generate images for me? An API I can post anything to and get an image back.

You'll need to know how to program. Try Python with Flask or Bottle.

Very funny.

Anyway, this pretty much answered my question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556277

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I think the answer is yes, but setup is a bit complicated. I would test this myself, but I don't have an NVIDIA card with at least 10GB of VRAM. One time: 1. Have "conda" installed. 2. clone https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion 3. `conda env create -f environment.yaml` 4. activate the Venv with `conda activate ldm` 5. Download weights from https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... (requir…

Thanks for these instructions. Unfortunately I'm getting this error message (Win11, 3080 10GB): > RuntimeError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 3.00 GiB (GPU 0; 10.00 GiB total capacity; 5.62 GiB already allocated; 1.80 GiB free; 5.74 GiB reserved in total by PyTorch) If reserved memory is >> allocated memory try setting max_split_size_mb to avoid fragmentation. See documentation for Memory Management and PYTOR…

I also have a 10g card and saw the same thing - to get it working I had to pass in "--n_samples 1" to the command, which limits the number of generated images to 2 in any given run. This has been working fine for me

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Kinda like the creation of copilot and it's ilk for programmers, and gpt3 for writers. Ive seen some talk recently around 'prompt engineers'... Probably to some extent, every job will become prompt engineering in some way. Eventually I suppose the AIs will also do the prompts. At which point I hope we've all agreed to a star trek utopia, or it's gonna get real bad. Or maybe it'll get way better.

Yeah, if we're gonna replace every fucking profession with a half-assed good-enough AI version, what're we even here for? We're sure not all gonna survive in a capitalist society where you have to create some kind of "value" to earn enough money to pay for your roof and your food and your power. IIRC there is some vague "it sure got real bad" somewhere in the Trek timelines between "capitalism ended" and "post-scarci…

Next let's get rid of all the artists and replace them with AI. Redistribute their skills so we can all make art. Oh wait that just happened. You're a hypocrite that wants to redistribute the wealth of others, but not your own.

Also joking about murdering people is bad taste and not how you convey a point or win an argument. Very low class.

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