Even if you don't want to take the 30 seconds to set it up in a free Google Colab environment, the paid DreamStudio version is still half the price of Dalle.
Amusingly it's more open in every way.
https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion is another popular and good tool.
I can think of ways to fix Stable Diffusion since it's open-source. I think I could bridge the gaps as I see them in about a weekend of hacking. I'm not sure when I'll get that weekend.
(Footnote: What I want to do is not something I can explain without a technical blog-post-length document or a zoom call; it's about the same level of complexity as the other major SD hacks we've seen)
That said, for me, I agree that dalle does much better pencil sketches.
According to Google's Imagen paper this is literally because the pixels get multiplied by the cfg scale and start clipping; they have a technique called dynamic thresholding that replaces it. Not sure if SD uses this, but I saw Emad hinting they were training an Imagen model…
Anyways I think it’s way too early to start taking sides. I enjoy using all these system.
I have no examples but imagine things like at the top of his game are immensely problematic, albeit not very visual to begin with.
Sure, both SD and Midjourney produce absolutely beautiful artworks most of the time. But if you want something specific and out of the ordinary it takes a lot of attempts and promptcrafting (and sometimes you are unable to accomplish what you want at all).
However, my experience is that these prompts (which SD/MJ struggles with) often produce good results in Dalle2 even on the first try.
Of course, OpenAI has very limiting content policy. But if I have something very specific in mind and it passes their rules I currently chose Dalle-2. Even though I've spent much more time with SD.
I expect most people aren't going to be generating images all day, so using a cloud-based service for occasional use will still make a lot of sense.
Stable Diffusion offers a paid service to do this too, and there's nothing wrong with that business model. Prices will probably come down, though.
I'd worry more about, say, keeping your photos on Google and losing your account somehow.
I didn't investigate any further because I'm not actively trying to generate porn. It was pretty annoying to have my results blanked out because they were (apparently) NSFW - so either the filter was triggering a lot of false positives or the model was generating NSFW content for non-NSFW prompts.
To remove the filter, you just have to comment out the two lines of code which call it. Instructions are here: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wv2nw0/tutoria...
I don't want to be a doomer and have have surely unknowingly misused terms as well, but its definitely noticable how these originally clearly defined terms are getting used in entirely new ways.
And it's not just with technical terms like this, it also applies to originally obvious terms such as racism, sexism etc which have lost their original meaning entirely
For example, the word "term" comes from the original latin "terminus" that means "end" or "boundary". It only got the meaning you used it for centuries after it was first used in English. See: https://www.etymonline.com/word/term
I was just pondering that our originally clearly defined terms are rapidly getting used in very confusing manner, which increases the difficulty of a discussion, as participants interpret words very differently.
I dont think that people look up the actual definition of terms in a thesaurus anymore. They hear it in some context and create their own personal definition. It wasn't as obvious before the internet i think, but nowadays everyone is bombarded with technical terms all the time, which likely contributes massively to this increasingly fluid terminology
The race to the bottom refers to a competitive situation where a company, state, or nation attempts to undercut the competition's prices by sacrificing quality standards or worker safety (often defying regulation), or reducing labor costs.
This appears to the the exact opposite, a race to provide more services and more features for a lower price, based on optimising and/or lower profit margins. AKA Capitalism actually working for a change.
There does seem to be a lot of vague angst about how this will affect the nascent "Prompt Engineer" career track, but I hope most are comfortable letting the open innovation play out a bit before trying to personally monetize it..
In this context it's a good race. This software seems to have caught fire and tons of people are playing with it and providing tons of crazy new tools for cheap or free.
It's a race to the top for us.
You're forgetting (or not knowinng?) NVIDIA Canvas that came out one year ago, give or take. Literally turns stick figure complexity drawing into photorealistic stuff.
That is still the best you can do... which happens to be about the best I can do! Just like my introduction to the computer at a young age has atrophied my handwriting quality.
I have been thinking the same thing, it's sad Steve will not be able to see it