colab.research.google.com
AI
text-to-image generator
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How HN took it
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy for nonprogrammers to use
From 1 comment
I've seen a bunch of people share their AI art generators, so I figured I'd get in on the action and share mine. This is based on the notebooks written by AI artists like…
hwayne on HN
Fun to experiment with prompts
From 2 comments
I’ve been utterly obsessed with the VQGAN notebooks since they came out and had a ton of fun. It’s amazing how much difference choosing the right prompts can make - trending on…
mattkevan on HNRunning "mouse on fire" gives pretty disturbing images :D
drodil on HN
Objections
Output and setup were hard to figure out without guidance
From 2 comments
Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this? I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled…
cubano on HNI missed the key step at first of going to the Runtime menu at the top of the page and selecting "Run All" there.
dhosek on HN
Checkpoint download link was down or the file was corrupted
From 2 comments
The https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de URL required for the checkpoint file seems to be down or at least very flaky. I wonder how many Colab boxes are currently trying to download…
akx on HNHad fun with this yesterday, sadly today I'm getting "RuntimeError: unexpected EOF, expected 733 more bytes. The file might be corrupted." Hope it can be fixed, it was fun…
tudorw on HN
Weak at animals and individual objects
From 2 comments
I was playing around with this with some friends and I have to say that anything involving animals of any kind in the generation leads to really weird results. I haven't tried…
kyrra on HNSame thing with trees. It definitely seems to struggle more with individual objects you'd expect to see in lots of photos. It's really good at locations, though. (Some of that…
hwayne on HN
Requests
Fix the broken model download
From 2 comments
The https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de URL required for the checkpoint file seems to be down or at least very flaky. I wonder how many Colab boxes are currently trying to download…
akx on HNHad fun with this yesterday, sadly today I'm getting "RuntimeError: unexpected EOF, expected 733 more bytes. The file might be corrupted." Hope it can be fixed, it was fun…
tudorw on HN
Clearer instructions for running the notebook
From 1 comment
Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this? I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled…
cubano on HN
Questions
How to make large images on a single GPU without seams
From 1 comment
Does anybody know of the best practice for creating large images (ex 3840x2160) on a single GPU (ex a 2080/3080)? I played with stitching some years ago when all of this stuff…
Mizza on HN
Alternatives named
Other VQGAN+CLIP notebooks by advadnoun and Katherine Crowson
From 1 comment
I've seen a bunch of people share their AI art generators, so I figured I'd get in on the action and share mine. This is based on the notebooks written by AI artists like…
hwayne on HN
Commercial AI art generators
From 1 comment
I've seen a bunch of people share their AI art generators, so I figured I'd get in on the action and share mine. This is based on the notebooks written by AI artists like…
hwayne on HN