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Easy Stable Diffusion + Textual Inversion! Wow – The pace at which the AI Image generation space has changed is something I have seldom seen in my life as a nerd. It reminds me of early Bitcoin tools or the Apple app store when it seemed like every day there was some new amazing app/tool/offering. I think SD is even more engaging for the community than these since it’s both open source and produces something tangible and fun (looking at blockchain ledgers takes some imagination to see why it’s ‘cool’)...

A New Easier Way I’ve had several blogs and websites over the years. I’ll skip over my Microsoft FrontPage and Dreamweaver sites of my childhood, but since then I try every few years at making a blog. I moved through lots of different platforms in the first several years with a lot of overhead or that I didn’t understand how they were built well enough to build in features I’d need or customize things....

If you want to skip straight to scripts, click here! Stable Diffusion Release! We knew the world would not be the same – A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. And just like that, the whole world changes. Stable Diffusion and its openness is a massive improvement to the tools we’ve been using in this space and our ability to modify/understand them. It was bound to happen, but I am very impressed with both how quickly it rolled out and how powerful the tool is....

DALL-E Homebrew In this post, we’ll look at getting setup with running your own A.I. image generator. You need a Linux system with a CUDA enabled card to get this working through to the end. I did get the basic txt-2img script working in Windows. Unfortunately, for the July released retrieval-augmented diffusion models, you need scann in order to index the openimages dataset, which is only available on Linux. WSL worked fine for me....

GPT-3 Raps A while back on Reddit, a rap about pencils written by GPT-3 was posted, which prompted me to do some Googling to try to generate and vocode the lyrics. I tried this with music myself a while back with Coqui-aiTTS and didn’t have great results. This time, I found a service called UberDuck that doesn’t work perfectly but is pretty good compared to what I had before. A link to the pencil vocoded rap can be found in that thread....