Stable Diffusion, NovelAI, Machine Learning Art - AI art generation discussion and image dump

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Oh yeah its borderline impossible to actually learn about any of this stuff when you start because of how quickly things are moving and how much people expect you already know. I've ironically found the Bing GPT to be very helpful in this regard.
Yeah, thank god for this thread for research purposes because this is one of the few non-faggy avenues to try to learn this shit.
 
I'm very new to this so my apologies for sounding like a Boomer. I'll get on that then. The documentation for this shit is seemingly all over the place and I've been doing intermittent research.
My Advice is to check out the Linux thread. Get Mint instead of Ubuntu if it's your first Linux and are migrating from windows. Then install the Cuda packages for the compatible Ubuntu Distro.
 
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I do wonder how animations will end up.
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It does feel like we are at the early stages of personalised media.
I have tested luma with a basic animation but I've seen some crazy stuff posted around
 
Yeah, thank god for this thread for research purposes because this is one of the few non-faggy avenues to try to learn this shit.
I saw you have AMD hardware, I do too. If you had Nvidia I'd suggest just doing everything on Windows which you already have, but for AMD you need Linux for it to be performant. The reason is because doing it on AMD requires a specific AMD set of libraries called ROCm and the Windows version is way behind the Linux one. If and when it catches up, you'd be able to do it on Windows just as easily but there's no imminent chance of that happening.

That said, the software will work on Windows. There's nothing stopping you from just trying out Automatic1111 or ComfyUI on Windows. You'll just be waiting for ten minutes for your image rather than 70 seconds.

When it comes to your choice of how to do this, Automatic1111 is generally said to be simpler than ComfyUI and I guess perhaps it is.

You'll need to install the ROCm libraries on your Linux box. There are a few ways you can do this but I personally would recommend just following this: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/develop/how-to/native-install/ubuntu.html

I can possibly give you some help if you get stuck. For choice of distro, I prefer Mint but you might want to pick Ubuntu just to minimise differences when you're following How-Tos. It's not like you can't change distro later.

Back again from Bing's image generator.

It accepted actress Doris Day! Eating a burger with a dog.

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If you could describe the 1950s in one word...
In the words of Dorothy Parker: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
 
Aaaand... it's over as soon as it began...

Just in case you weren't unimpressed enough by Stable Diffusion 3, turns out they put a whole lotta legal mumbo jumbo into the EULA that has forced civitai et al to suspend sharing of anything touching it for the time being.

It could all resolve tomorrow, or it could go on forever. Either way, you'll prise my beloved SD 1.5 out of my cold, dead hardrive.
 
I will certainly miss all of the ‘girl laying in grass’ images.

To that note, did anyone have any good experiences with SD3? The only thing that impressed me was its ability to sanely generate text where I prompted it. Photorealism wasn’t any better or worse than what can be achieved with checkpoints like Juggernaut, etc. Cartoon/anime characters and scenes were also pretty good but like others have mentioned, no reason to use SD3 over whatever you’re currently using.

Have any of you trained/used some DoRAs? Thoughts?
 
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Aaaand... it's over as soon as it began...

Just in case you weren't unimpressed enough by Stable Diffusion 3, turns out they put a whole lotta legal mumbo jumbo into the EULA that has forced civitai et al to suspend sharing of anything touching it for the time being.

It could all resolve tomorrow, or it could go on forever. Either way, you'll prise my beloved SD 1.5 out of my cold, dead hardrive.
And they completely fucked up with the naming. No one will make the distinction between SD3 2B/4B/8B. It will forever be known as a shit model with a bad license.
 
You... fiend. How could you? Look what you did to my girl. *sob*
To that note, did anyone have any good experiences with SD3?
Sure. Kind of. The API version has been confirmed to be running the 8B version and frankly it made a strong first impression. Prompt adherence and quality of output. And on Reddit you can find a number of posts where there are comparisons between the local version and the 8B API version. It's far superior in both understanding prompts and in quality of output. I could do you a few comparisons if you have any requests.

If you mean the local 2B version which of course I'm fully aware that you probably did, then somewhat. It understands prompts well, it ran quickly on my hardware and for a base model with no fine-tuning, I found its output impressive. It's not bad, it's damaged. They did that to it. It should be good and you can see that it would be from when it works.
 
Comment section was fun to read.
That ptx0 guy is the only one talking sense. Everybody else in the comments thinks that Pony is the only thing keeping Stablity AI afloat. I think Stable Diffusion is their only good product though. By good, I mean midrange in the industry. Midjourney is better by most accounts.

Stable Beluga is a joke LLM that is just a bad Illama 2 finetune. With Illama 3 out a month or two ago it's over.
 
Dammit. sometime in the past week or so my python version updated and removed the 3.10.6 that it needed. Because python programs 41% if it doesn't have the exact version I'm now
This is why I install anaconda alongside system python, so you can use multiple versions. You should try to avoid updating python until your current version is running behind, imo because then you're stuck figuring out what doesn't work anymore. All these different tools and a bunch of them are very strict about what python, torch, and cuda version you use. Also if you install all your dependencies in one go in a conda environment there are fewer conflicts.
 
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Was bored on civitai and decided to remove the NSFW filter.

First thing I see is a dragon fucking a car...
Stability is dead now, sucks tho since all other options at the same level can't be run locally. For all the hoopla about SD being used to make CSAM I've yet to see any. Seen plenty of weird porn specially furshit (barf) but no actual photorealistic cp anywhere.

Then again I wasn't particularly looking for it so who knows...
Midjourney is better by most accounts.
Closed source SaaS shit, hard pass, shame that the same guy from leap motion would go with this model given how open that thing was.
 
Stability is dead now, sucks tho since all other options at the same level can't be run locally. For all the hoopla about SD being used to make CSAM I've yet to see any. Seen plenty of weird porn specially furshit (barf) but no actual photorealistic cp anywhere.

Then again I wasn't particularly looking for it so who knows...
IWF (PDF link) did a report about it

Under UK law it's just as illegal as the real thing (assuming it's photorealistic) so that might drive down its appeal a bit. They're using checkpoints and LoRAs just like the furries and bronies do.
 
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IWF (PDF link) did a report about it

Under UK law it's just as illegal as the real thing (assuming it's photorealistic) so that might drive down its appeal a bit. They're using checkpoints and LoRAs just like the furries and bronies do.
Wow. Turns out if the cops find you with an indistinguishable copy of something illegal, it can be used to convict you.

People who generate facsimiles of CSAM, if it were legal to do so, are doing a great job of heading towards a possession charge.
 
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