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How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Or at the very least with the list of artists alphabetically sorted!

They're sorted by last name, it took me a second too! I just wish I knew more of them.

Most of the names are sorted! Scroll to the very end...

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Interesting, how with billions of nodes and supposed "intelligence", the network hasn't been able to deduce a simple concept of symmetry in human faces. All of the eyes and all of the lips in all of the pictures are asymmetrical, which easily gives AI generated images away.

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Hate to say it but when i see stuff like this it only reminds me of what we could have achieved if this ingenuity had been applied in another domain. Can't help feeling that this accidentally harms creative types and risks swamping us with visual junk. The technical achievment is astounding but no-one would seriously claim that crafting an image via a short prompt is creative except in the most cursory way. I'm proba…

> only reminds me of what we could have achieved if this ingenuity had been applied in another domain.

I hate arguments like this. Even ignoring how dismisive it is of the achievement at hand, why would you assume ingenuity is transferable like that? Someone who makes a breakthrough in physics is by no means likely to have made an equivalently ground breaking advance in biology if they had decided to study that field instead.

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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It's the nature of ML models--nobody is 100% sure what it understands until they try something and get results. It was given a lot of tagged data: 600 million captioned images from LAION-5B. So if you want to know what it might support, you could try any one of the captions from those 600 million images.

But why isn't the list of words from those captions available anywhere (at least as far as I can tell)? There may be 600 million captions, but the number of unique words would probably be 10 or 20 thousand at most, completely feasible to browse or grep.

Its kind of a weird complaint. If i am having a conversation with someone, i wouldn't be concerned about knowing the set of all possible nouns.

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Interesting, how with billions of nodes and supposed "intelligence", the network hasn't been able to deduce a simple concept of symmetry in human faces. All of the eyes and all of the lips in all of the pictures are asymmetrical, which easily gives AI generated images away.

It feels like they really only track local continuity without any meaningful knowledge. Hands are wonky and wrong in ways that don't look like any drawing I've ever seen. Horses with five or six legs.

Humans also have a hilariously hard time drawing bicycles, but at least we pretty much always nail the number of appendages.

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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What frustrates me about Stable Diffusion is there doesn't seem to be any documentation as to what artists or vocabulary it understands. Generally people say "look at existing prompts or use various prompt generators" but that doesn't really solve the problem. I don't want to just look at what other people have randomly discovered; I want to know what the program really knows.

"It" doesn't understand anything. It's just a very advanced madlibs engine based on a database of a billion of already known images.

Some people would probably argue that humans are essentially the same.

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or at the very least with the list of artists alphabetically sorted!

They're sorted by last name, it took me a second too! I just wish I knew more of them.

Sorted by last name but listed by first name means you can start typing the artist's name and get to the right place in the list...

Re: How a Stable Diffusion prompt changes its output for the style of 1500 artists

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I wonder how constant everything else is kept, e.g. The seed. It's interesting that all the poses seem to align

Yeah, they use the same seed, which is used to generate random color pixels. Then they algorithm takes it from there.
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