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Post by outspaced on Oct 4, 2022 20:26:03 GMT
(Wasn't sure where to put this.) There's a lot of talk recently about AI systems creating artwork. As someone who can't draw for toffee, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to play with such to create artwork to accompany some of my writing. When I heard that Stable-Diffusion could now be installed and used from your own PC, I thought I'd investigate, so I followed a long, arcane list of strange instructions to get it installed, and... It didn't work. Because apparently, you NEED an nVidia GFX card to get it to work, but I have an AMD/ATI/Radeon/whatever they're called these days. Stories allege that it can be made to work with non-nVidia cards, but I after several attempts at following the strange list of esoteric commands, I can't get it to install. Damnit. Has anyone else on this forum explored the AI-art tech to create illustrations for their work? Has anyone actually got Stable-Diffusion to install properly and work? Are there any AI-art systems that can be installed locally and ACTUALLY INSTALL? If you have any examples of "your own" artwork (via AI algorithms), I'm sure we'd all be interested in links to them.
Or am I the only one . . . ?
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Post by Peter on Oct 6, 2022 6:35:27 GMT
Um, I don't even understand half the words you used!
So sorry, I can't help. But I would be intrigued to see the results if someone has the creativity and the technical resources.
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Post by outspaced on Oct 6, 2022 13:51:38 GMT
Heh! I'm not explaining things well because I don't really understand it myself... Basically, Stable-Diffusion is an engine to auto-generate images when fed a description of what you want (e.g. "Haunted castle on the side of a mountain under a full moon" and it'll use AI-algorithms to generate a few options, and you can pick one of them or get it to try again with a different set of input-words). The results are pretty bloody impressive! See, for example here. Something like this would definitely help gamebook fan-writers to create some amazing accompanying artwork, but it just won't work for me right now, so I wondered if anyone else had played around with it and had any results to share.
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Post by philsadler on Oct 6, 2022 15:25:37 GMT
I'm so dumb I can't even work out where to download it?
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Post by outspaced on Oct 6, 2022 16:15:38 GMT
This was the spell I attempted to cast to get it to download/install.
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Post by philsadler on Oct 6, 2022 16:57:24 GMT
Thanks, but I'm not even going to try all of that.
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Post by outspaced on Nov 7, 2022 11:31:12 GMT
OK, I got it working. The method was to wait until someone techy simplified the install process and usage for we mere lay-folk. In case it is of any interest/help to anyone, the one-click method I followed can be found here. Still takes ages for it to download/install everything the first time around, but doesn't require any arcane knowledge. A much more civilised way of casting.
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Post by kieran on Nov 7, 2022 11:35:50 GMT
Has anyone else on this forum explored the AI-art tech to create illustrations for their work?
I wonder about the legality of doing so if it's for a product you're making money from? My understanding is AI-generated art uses different pieces of existing art as reference points and blends them together - seems like a bit of a copyright quagmire. Although it should be a good tool for amateur works.
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