[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":570},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-33038117":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":46,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":71,"maker_in_thread":238,"shape":248,"grid":252,"attempts":533,"same_week":534,"maker_shows":372,"maker_hidden":562,"reader_version":563,"card":564},"33038117","GhostlyStock","Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion","title","Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ghostlystock.com\u002F","ghostlystock.com","jarrenae",1664559921,2022,190,105,305,2570,12,"notable","ai","generative image search","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"stable diffusion","stock photos","text to image","ai images","mixed",-0.335,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},9,19,4,29,61,{"performance":37,"idea":39,"privacy":41,"design":43,"execution":44},{"positive":38,"critical":38},5,{"positive":33,"critical":40},2,{"positive":42,"critical":38},0,{"positive":42,"critical":38},{"positive":42,"critical":45},11,[38,47,48,48,47,38,40,47,47,47,42,47,47,47,47,38,42,42,38,48,47,47,48,47,48,38,47,47,48,48,47,48,47,48,48,47,47,47,47,47],1,3,"Hi HN, this is an early version of what we’re imagining as a truly functional stock photo platform using Stable Diffusion.\n\nWe’re doing our best to hide the customization prompts on the back end so users are able to quickly search for pre-existing generated photos, or create new ones that would ideally work as well.\n\nIf we keep going with it, in future versions we’d like to add voting, better tags, and more varied prompts, or maybe whatever you recommend!",{"problem":51,"audience":57,"pricing":57,"motivation":58,"time_to_build":57,"stack":64,"openness":69,"stage":70,"team_size":69},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Finding stock photos, or generating new ones when no existing photo fits","maker",[55],{"id":56},"post",null,{"value":59,"source":53,"evidence":60},"Build a usable stock photo platform on generative AI, aiming for something a non-expert can use",[61],{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"33044290","This is definitely a fair assessment. I think a lot of the \"wow\" factor is just seeing the generated images in the first place. In truth I think a lot of value will be added as…",[65],{"value":66,"source":53,"evidence":67},"Stable Diffusion",[68],{"id":56},"unknown","beta",{"praise":72,"objections":96,"requests":154,"questions":201,"alternatives":216},[73,85],{"value":74,"source":75,"evidence":76},"Some generated landscape and object images look striking","commenter",[77,81],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"33042064","awb","The landscape and city photos are stunning. The ones with people and animals tend to have distorted faces or bodies. But keep up the good work. There’s a definitely a market for…",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"33040941","ericmcer","Whoa this is cool and I would def used a more refined version of it. The images with people are a little bit... freaky but objects and animals look fine. I wonder if this exists…",{"value":86,"source":75,"evidence":87},"Related-result suggestions and the concept are interesting",[88,92],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"33053104","jtxt","I really like this idea! Related results work fairly well. Tons of potential here! Ideas: Allow voting for prompts. Allow voting for results. (But try to prevent the rich get…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"33041885","napsterbr","Gotta love some of these suggestions: \"The Ethereum logo glowing above wet pavement, with a bull charging\"",[97,116,128,139,147],{"value":98,"source":75,"evidence":99},"Search returns unrelated or odd images; poor matching of prompts",[100,104,108,112],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"33043970","poopnugget","Doesnt work. I type my prompt and it gives results for something different.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"33041103","barbazoo","Not sure I understand how to use this. I searched for \"monkey on car\" and these are the \"categories\" I get: \"a dead monkey\", \"a monkey dancing\", \"a dead monkey\" (again), \"a ca\"",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"33045652","Alex3917","If I search for \"bicycle repair shop\", all I see are images for car repair shops.",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"33043407","bscphil","It's sort of interesting, given the undeniable power that these new AI techniques have, just how limited the output is at the moment. Only 512x512 images. I tried a specific…",{"value":117,"source":75,"evidence":118},"Human faces and bodies are distorted and creepy",[119,123,124],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"33041040","nostromo","Some of these are a bit nightmarish! https:\u002F\u002Freplicate.com\u002Fapi\u002Fmodels\u002Fstability-ai\u002Fstable-diffusion\u002Ffiles\u002Fb17d6f04-8d89-45a4-b2d1-7104c6318591\u002Fout-2.png…",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"33044841","rany_","It still has trouble understanding sentences, it feels to me that it just generates images based on keywords and not the meaning of my sentence. For example, I tried \"attractive…",{"value":129,"source":75,"evidence":130},"Not a functional stock photo platform yet; lacks human curation",[131,135],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"33043628","krick","Not sure how to evaluate that. Maybe it's kinda fun, but… I mean, generating crappy images from text isn't exactly new by now. It may be \"an early version\" (and this is exactly…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"33045337","bambax","Actual stock photo websites have human reviewers and it's a big part of their value proposition.",{"value":140,"source":75,"evidence":141},"Images are only 512x512 and too low resolution for stock use",[142,146],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"33045562","needle0","512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},{"value":148,"source":75,"evidence":149},"Slow generation with no loading indicator",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"33039096","gus_massa","They take too long to generate, but there is no clear indication of that. You should add a spinning mouse or other thing that shows that the server is working. (A robot paining a…",[155,167,174,184,191],{"value":156,"source":53,"evidence":157},"Voting and curation of images and prompts",[158,161,164],{"id":159,"by":11,"text":160},"33041464","In V2 we're planning to add a voting system and additional filtering\u002Ftagging to solve for a lot of these unusual\u002Fnightmareish summoned images. I for one am sorry for your…",{"id":162,"by":11,"text":163},"33041423","We're going to add voting to help empower users to sort between better\u002Fworse summoned images. And an API tool for devs to leverage is planned as well.",{"id":165,"by":11,"text":166},"33044201","You're spot on with the curation! I'm really exciting to add voting and weighing to the images. I think that's where this'll really start to shine. \"Girl reading in a coffee…",{"value":168,"source":53,"evidence":169},"Better tags and filtering",[170,171],{"id":159,"by":11,"text":160},{"id":172,"by":11,"text":173},"33044193","That's one of the things I've found deeply interesting about the current generation of tools, there's little (if any) comprehension going on, it's really just trying to \"enhance\"…",{"value":175,"source":75,"evidence":176},"Non-square aspect ratios such as 16:9",[177,181],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"33043098","omwow","Would love the option to not just have square images, but other formats as well (especially 16:9)",{"id":182,"by":11,"text":183},"33044298","Spot on. In my initial sketches for the site I had vertical\u002Fhorizontal sorting for images, and I think we'll be able to add that pretty quickly.",{"value":185,"source":75,"evidence":186},"Upscaling of images",[187,188],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},{"id":189,"by":11,"text":190},"33044267","Upsizing is something I'm really hoping to bring in the next version of the site. I'm imagining a variety of different tools to improve the images, so ideally if an image is good…",{"value":192,"source":75,"evidence":193},"URL-based API for fetching photos",[194,198],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"33042318","bredren","A simple url-argument-based API to get back a photo, similar to source.unsplash.com’s behavior would be terrific.",{"id":199,"by":11,"text":200},"33042479","100% Agreed on this one. I was really hoping we'd have that feature ready before launching today. Hopefully we'll have an early version up in the next week or so.",[202,209],{"value":203,"source":75,"evidence":204},"Whether Stable Diffusion output avoids copyrighted training data",[205],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"33064445","riedel","How safe is it to use those stock photos? How sure can one be that stable diffusion does not create any copyrighted work? Is the training data all freely licenced or is there a…",{"value":210,"source":75,"evidence":211},"Whether the search button and UX work on mobile",[212],{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"33040415","CameronBanga","Having a button in the search bar that's a blue circle that says Photo, etc, and then not having it start the generation process when clicked feels odd to me. Took me about 30…",[217,224,231],{"value":218,"source":75,"evidence":219},"Unsplash",[220,223],{"id":221,"by":11,"text":222},"33044232","Thanks for the feedback, and I totally agree. I'd really hoped to fill out the landing page a bit more before we launched today, but we weren't able to roll it out in time.…",{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},{"value":225,"source":75,"evidence":226},"Getty Images and Adobe Stock",[227],{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},"33041409","wheresmycraisin","Omg I cannot wait for human faces to become non-freaky with this technology. People pay real money to sites like Getty or Adobe (the former of which is owned by a corp that you…",{"value":232,"source":75,"evidence":233},"Lexica",[234],{"id":235,"by":236,"text":237},"33045393","JimWestergren","Use the Lexica API and show images from them as well! https:\u002F\u002Flexica.art\u002Fdocs",{"comments":239,"answered":48,"key":240},27,[241,242,245],{"id":159,"text":160},{"id":243,"text":244},"33042473","Yeah, unfortunately uncanny valley is spot on for most generated faces with this version of Stable Diffusion. 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