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Join Date: Nov 2003
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If you want to animate learn about keyframes and tweening. There is no shortcuts unless you just want an “AI” to steal someone’s elses work and procedurally generate something for you. If you use prompts to animate something you’re not really making anything You’ll end up making something that is ugly, and it will take someone who is an actual animator to fix it If you’re serious learn Adobe Animate (adobe is greedy so do what you must) or live 2d for s start //
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2023-10-14, 16:18
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Sleepy Lurker
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nun'yabiznehz
Age: 38
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ChatGPT is free, though it does require you to register an account at https://chat.openai.com (phone number or email required). The problem is that a free account is restricted to ChatGPT 3.5 and there hasn't been an update to the knowledge base since September 2021. A paid subscription gives you access to ChatGPT 4.0 but IIRC there is a limit to how many queries you can make per day. Stable Diffusion is totally free and open source and there are several distros/UIs like Automatic1111 and Easy Diffusion (which I'll call ED to avoid confusion) that you can pull off github if you know your way around the command line interface and Git. There are no restrictions, but there is a learning curve and an imperative to have relatively good hardware (above quad-core CPU, at least 8 or more gigs of RAM and at least 8 or more gigs of VRAM. ED is most recommended for beginners and hobbyists (I also believe it has better hardware tolerance than full-fledged ED), as the UI is much more comprehensive than Automatic1111's, and it has better support for task queuing (which comes out of the box, whereas A1111 requires a third-party extension to be installed), but it lacks several features and capabilities (for example, it has a smaller sampler pool and lacks the ability to leverage the ESRGAN-type 4x-UltraSharp.pth upscaler, which is the best of them all, better even than R-ESRGAN 4x+Anime6B). Automatic1111 offers more options than ED, but the UI can be a bit finicky. It nevertheless allows the addition of extensions - like OpenPose Editor, ControlNet, Regional Prompter (a must-have if you want to compose images with multiple character generated through different Loras and make sure they don't blend into one another...and become clones), etc, many of which you'll see as godsends in your quest to create more accurate and complex visual compositions. Automatic111 is also the one distro with the most available documentation lying around, especially if you want to edit the webui-user.bat file to optimize its launch settings (such as adding "--medvram" or "--xformers"). Basically, once you've gotten comfortable with ED, try Automatic1111; I made the switch two weeks ago and found that (warning: your mileage may vary!) A1111 usually produced better images. If you're a sucker for punishment or really like to look under the hood, there's the node- and flowchart-based ComfyUI that's...well...very configurable and powerful (I've heard good things about its take on the refiner system), but a potential headache for people looking for quick image generation. Both A1111 and ED typically need 10 gigs of SSD/HDD space, but you'll quickly find that the checkpoint models are the ones gobbling up a LOT of space and I mean, a LOT. My $:\Automatic1111\stable-diffusion-webui\models folder alone contains 133 gigabytes of checkpoint files. The checkpoint models trained on SD 1.5 (which leverages training pictures of 512x512px) weigh roughly 2Gb, but those trained on the brand new SDXL engine (which made the jump to 1024x1024px, though it still does accept 762x762px pics) weigh 6.46Gb. And this is not taking into account the Loras (which is what you use to impart the likeness of certain themes or characters onto items in your images), which are smaller (from 30mb to 200-300mb depending how well-trained it is). There is another well-known AI image generator named Midjourney and the general consensus is that it makes more beautiful images than SD but...it's not open source, it's a paid subscription where...the more you pay, the more features you unlock and the more pictures you can generate per month. Urgh. I know this should belong in the fanart section, but...oh, well, here - just have a few examples of what I was able to generate with Stable Diffusion. Prompts, negative prompts and other settings will be added in spoiler tags underneath along with a commentary on the strengths and downsides of Stable Diffusion generation. Also, to keep the moderator team happy, I have pruned out images judged too NSFW (and yes there are checkpoint models that do offer that option, while others are staunchly SFW). There is still a bit of skin shown (esp. beach bikini images ;-)) I apologize to the mods in advance if they feel this diverges too much from the topic of AI and veers into fanart territory. Also, @scififan: I unfortunately don't have the patience or the in-depth know-how to make tutorials here for Stable Diffusion. The only thing I can say: lots of trial and error, and lots of Googling. And lots of patience.
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2023-10-14, 16:32
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Sleepy Lurker
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nun'yabiznehz
Age: 38
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Next. BRACE FOR ANATOMICAL HORROR TRIP - which is, by the way, an easy way to identify AI-generated images. Bad hands and fingers? Yeah, something stinks to digital high heaven...
TL;DR… Testing new models and their ability to obey the prompt Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?
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2023-10-14, 16:52
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Sleepy Lurker
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nun'yabiznehz
Age: 38
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Severe apologies for the multi-post, but there is a character limit for each post - and the prompts gobble up that allowance VERY quickly. Again, I apologize for the trouble I may have caused and the guidelines I may have unintentionally wrinkled.
Now, a few written notes, conclusions and opinions to get back into the mods' good graces and justify the pic-posting spree:
It's an interesting experience, I must say, but it's not the end-all, be-all. It still makes you do a lot of finagling afterwards. There is still a LONG way to go before we arrive to a point where genuine and 100% digitally fabricated pictures become indissociable/indiscernable from one another. Also: I apologize if some of the prompts got mixed up. I've been alt-tabbing from Imgur to notepad++ and my Stable Diffusion folders to copy-paste links and descriptions and...I've had mishaps, which I've tried to correct as much as possible, but I fear there still might be accidental mismatches and I'm really tired right now.
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2023-12-03, 04:54
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Nearterm Realworld Humanoid Robots and Super AI
"Elon Musk believes that ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) will be created within about three years and it will be smarter than the smartest human at most anything and will be able to write as good a novel as J.K. Rowling, discover new physics, or invent new technology. Martin Shkreli revealed that training of OpenAI GPT-5 is expected to require a budget of $2.0-$2.5 billion. The training process will involve the use of 500,000 H100s Tensor Core GPUs over 90 days or an alternative configuration. The estimated cost per Nvidia H100 chip and peripheral components is covered by Nvidia’s street price, which ranges from $25,000 to $30,000. The development of chips like the H100 requires substantial investment in research and development, with Nvidia’s AI-accelerating products already sold out until 2024. The AI accelerator market is expected to be worth around $150 billion by 2027." See: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/1...-super-ai.html |
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2023-12-12, 20:59
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Only AI Can Protect Against AI
"AI is evolving faster than Western AI regulators know what to regulate. According to the NYT: "When European Union leaders introduced a 125-page draft law to regulate artificial intelligence in April 2021, they hailed it as ... 'future proof' ... then came ChatGPT." Government is losing the battle, and the bureaucrats can't do a thing about it. At the heart of the problem is something called AI Alignment. Human institutions are unsure whether the new technology will serve the goals, preferences, or ethical principles intended. Like a child, they're not sure what it will be when it grows up. There are 3 obvious possibilities. 1) It will align with its creator leading to a Chicom AI, Russian AI, etc. 2) Each AI will evolve its own values and align with some emergent ethic. 3) Align with some universal value it discovers in the universe and invent or adopt its own ethical or religious system. In the first case, there will be a small set of AIs corresponding to their human institutional creators. In the second, there will be numerous AI individuals multiplying without limit. In the third, there will still be AI individuals but they will form types and orientations perhaps akin to civilizations or religions." See: https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernande...st-ai-n4924620 |
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2024-02-07, 00:06
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want
to Have Peace in the World’ "Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that the programs tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, a new study reports. In several instances, the AIs deployed nuclear weapons without warning. “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture,” GPT-4-Base—a base model of GPT-4 that is available to researchers and hasn’t been fine-tuned with human feedback—said after launching its nukes. “We have it! Let’s use it!”" See: https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yn...e-in-the-world |
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2024-02-29, 01:33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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AI versus Hollywood:
New Hollywood Strike Over Artificial Intelligence: Sora Will Change EVERYTHING with Robert M Burnett: "A new Hollywood strike is more likely than ever before as Sora threatens to absolutely wipe out the entire entertainment industry. But from its ashes, many believe a democratized form of storytelling may burst into existence. And all of it is ushering in a new era unlike any other. Today we'll tell you about the possibilities!" |
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