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Post by bobsmooth »

egypturnash wrote: post #157
mkaic wrote: post #85

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(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster . And every place this shit get…

Learn to code.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by Geonode »

jmfldn wrote: post #69
simonw wrote: post #4

If you want to try it out this seems to be the best tool for doing so: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/

I just tried it via this link. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but the results were extremely underwhelming. I've used Dall E 2 and Midjourney extensively so I know what they're capable of. Maybe I'm missing something?

Midjourney creates the most compelling images by far, so far.

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Post by astrange »

naillo wrote: post #118
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…

I much prefer a company that asks me to not abuse it but lets me, then a company that treats me like child and force filters it out for me.

That's not the only issue with NSFW; the larger problem is when you don't ask for it and get it anyway. Especially because this model is not particularly good at it and you'll get body horror.

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Post by astrange »

jcims wrote: post #53
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #29

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Eh... if I was making conspiracy theories, it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results.

>it's not like Photoshop hasn't existed for decades already, with far more predictable results. Agreed. For me those results are predictably shit. Every time.

You could take a photography class? They're fun.

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Post by astrange »

cshenton wrote: post #309
derac wrote: post #171

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Making art is already not making much money for the vast majority of producers (outside of 3d modeling). There really aren't very many jobs in making art. I'd reckon most people are artists because they love doing it.

This is completely wrong, the digital art industry is enormous and, mind you, pretty uniformly pissed off that this model has been trained off of their non public-domain work.

They're mostly posting incorrect claims like "all it does it make collages out of other people's art" though. It doesn't do that; the model stores about 1 byte per original image it's seen.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by astrange »

egypturnash wrote: post #157
mkaic wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster . And every place this shit get…

Automation doesn't eliminate jobs. As such this automation won't eliminate your job, QED.

(It's bad monetary policy that eliminates jobs. The US has very very low unemployment right now so it doesn't appear that's been happening.)

Go ahead and try it. It'd be impossibly harder to create one of your own pictures with it than it was for your to make one. Instead what's going to happen is you'll get more efficient ways to do backgrounds and unimportant bits of an image, just like Blender CSP provide 3D models to do layouts with.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by astrange »

ALittleLight wrote: post #258
fezfight wrote: post #66

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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.

I think right now we could setup the AI's to do the prompts. You type in a vague description - "gorilla in a suit" and that is passed to GPT-3's API with instructions to provide a detailed and vivid description of the input in X style where X is one of several different styles. GPT-3 generates multiple prompts, the prompts passed to Stable Diffusion, the user gets back a grid of different images and styles. Selecting…

Stable Diffusion already includes a GPT-type language model - that's what's understanding your text prompt.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Post by astrange »

boredemployee wrote: post #64
egypturnash wrote: post #41

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

Yep. I'm glad that didn't hit other spaces, like music, _yet_

Sampling has been part of music for a few decades now. That presents all the copyright issues you could want.
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