Don’t have to make an account, but if you do it saves your generated images. Free use is limited to 25 steps, and 512x640 pixels. Paid use expands that.
In addition to the online platforms linked by the other commenters, it’s also pretty straightforward to run Stable Diffusion locally, if your hardware is beefy enough:
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Various fine-tunes checkpoints for different content and art styles can be downloaded at civitai.
This is the way. The really top-tier AI art is almost guaranteed to use this, most online tools and other frontends just don’t have the features. Also, here is a link to a fork of that with an improved UI (no other changes).
(side note, Does anyone know why I can’t upload pictures directly from web? getting
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data )
Beefy can mean things to different people too. I have a mobile 1660ti and it can generate images in decent times (about 40seconds for a 20iteration image from prompt)
I’m slightly lacking in VRAM though, something 8GB VRAM would allow you to use most models.
Fun fact, it can be run on as low as 2gb vram! It works out of the box with the --lowvram parameter, and with some extra fiddling with extensions you can even generate high resolution stuff.
The simplest is Stable Horde/AI horde. Volunteers donate GPU time to the public. Please do not abuse this trust by overusing it without giving back! Great for quick experiments, though, since it requires no sign-up. Also includes a “get probable description from uploaded image” function, I’ve just noticed:
Personally, I’ve been playing around with leonardo.ai. It has a payment structure, but the free tier is very generous, in my opinion. You get 150 free daily token. Images cost between 1-4 token. It has a prompt generator, and you can even train your own model for free. There are also a lot of community models, since every model is set to public by default. You can even browse public images and directly copy all settings/prompts into the generator or use them for image-to-image stuff.
The company is very much focussing on building an active community, which can be both good and bad. You are first put on a waiting list, but your account is automatically activated if you join the discord and write some comments. There are also constant community contests/challenges to earn more token.
Edit: leonardo.ai techncally allows nsfw generations, but heavily discourages them. It has an automatic filter for any terms deemed nsfw. You may also not discuss how to circumvent that filter in the discord. (You may discuss how to bypass the filter to prompt safe for work images. E.g. you may discuss how to create Charles Dickens characters despite Dickens being filtered out.)
Exactly. Difference is, you may also create fully NSFW models or pictures, if you figure out how. There’s a topless woman in the top community creations right now. They just don’t seem to want straight up porn, and this makes it difficult enough to keep it from being flooded by that.
Yes if you have a spare PC with a fairly recent nvidia GPU and decent internet speeds or a couple hours to spare for inital setup, you can selfhost InvokeAI. You can use stable diffusion with quite a few open models and its not complex to setup.
I’ve been playing around with Dreamerland for the last week or so. The app itself has almost no embedded ads which makes for a clean and usable interface, but it forces you to watch an ad every time you hit “generate” which can get tedious.
large models are actually really expensive to run: either run it yourself, or put up with the fact that someone’s not going to pay a lot for people to just use because reasons?
Not sure how you mean. Stable Diffusion is the golden standard right now and it’s free. You just have to run it locally on your own hardware for the full configurability and features. It’s a pretty steep learning curve, and requires a decent, discreet GPU.
You can get results as good or better than Midjourney with stable diffusion…but it’s not as streamlined as Midjourney is. you have to find the right model on Civitai.com, you have to craft the prompt right, you can use controlnet. And then if you want to go the extra mile, refine it with img2img.
The extreme configurability that comes from running Stable Diffusion locally can be blessing and/or curse. You need to fiddle around and get experienced with the settings to get good results, but once you get good at that you can get really good results.
Out of the available image generators, Stable Diffusion is the best but be prepared to mess around with it to get the best results. If you have an iPhone or Mac, Draw Things is a great way to get started. If you want to dive head first into stable diffusion and have good hardware with lots of VRAM then try Automatic1111 as others have suggested.
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Bing works well up to a hundred images a week then just make a new account if you run out.
https://dbzer0.itch.io/lucid-creations
Is this kind of what you are looking for? It’s made by the same person behind this instance
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I’ve recently used AI Image Generator. I’ve also bookmarked this to have a look later as that seemed to be a nice overview of options to selfhost.
I have used https://neural.love/ai-art-generator
Don’t have to make an account, but if you do it saves your generated images. Free use is limited to 25 steps, and 512x640 pixels. Paid use expands that.
In addition to the online platforms linked by the other commenters, it’s also pretty straightforward to run Stable Diffusion locally, if your hardware is beefy enough: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Various fine-tunes checkpoints for different content and art styles can be downloaded at civitai.
This is the way. The really top-tier AI art is almost guaranteed to use this, most online tools and other frontends just don’t have the features. Also, here is a link to a fork of that with an improved UI (no other changes).
absolutely this. I have been messing around with this for about a week now.
super fun and easy to set up. I used this since I wanted a docker env.
(side note, Does anyone know why I can’t upload pictures directly from web? getting
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data)edit: its because of size…
Beefy can mean things to different people too. I have a mobile 1660ti and it can generate images in decent times (about 40seconds for a 20iteration image from prompt)
I’m slightly lacking in VRAM though, something 8GB VRAM would allow you to use most models.
yeah thats fair enough on the wordage.
Im rocking a 3070 and 11th gen i7, but only 16gb of ram.
still pretty quick imo
Took longer for my browser to download the image than it took for you to generate it. :)
Fun fact, it can be run on as low as 2gb vram! It works out of the box with the --lowvram parameter, and with some extra fiddling with extensions you can even generate high resolution stuff.
Best way right here. Free, open sourced, and you wont get judged for your outputs.
Yes. Various, with various limitations.
The simplest is Stable Horde/AI horde. Volunteers donate GPU time to the public. Please do not abuse this trust by overusing it without giving back! Great for quick experiments, though, since it requires no sign-up. Also includes a “get probable description from uploaded image” function, I’ve just noticed:
https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui/about
Personally, I’ve been playing around with leonardo.ai. It has a payment structure, but the free tier is very generous, in my opinion. You get 150 free daily token. Images cost between 1-4 token. It has a prompt generator, and you can even train your own model for free. There are also a lot of community models, since every model is set to public by default. You can even browse public images and directly copy all settings/prompts into the generator or use them for image-to-image stuff.
The company is very much focussing on building an active community, which can be both good and bad. You are first put on a waiting list, but your account is automatically activated if you join the discord and write some comments. There are also constant community contests/challenges to earn more token.
Edit: leonardo.ai techncally allows nsfw generations, but heavily discourages them. It has an automatic filter for any terms deemed nsfw. You may also not discuss how to circumvent that filter in the discord. (You may discuss how to bypass the filter to prompt safe for work images. E.g. you may discuss how to create Charles Dickens characters despite Dickens being filtered out.)
Here are few more, but I haven’t tried any of them:
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/free-ai-image-generator-sites/
.g. you may discuss how to create Charles Dickens characters despite Dickens being filtered out.)Ah so the ol Scuthorpe problem.
Exactly. Difference is, you may also create fully NSFW models or pictures, if you figure out how. There’s a topless woman in the top community creations right now. They just don’t seem to want straight up porn, and this makes it difficult enough to keep it from being flooded by that.
@Spiracle @LookstotheMoon what about possibilities you can run yourself?
Yes if you have a spare PC with a fairly recent nvidia GPU and decent internet speeds or a couple hours to spare for inital setup, you can selfhost InvokeAI. You can use stable diffusion with quite a few open models and its not complex to setup.
I’ve been playing around with Dreamerland for the last week or so. The app itself has almost no embedded ads which makes for a clean and usable interface, but it forces you to watch an ad every time you hit “generate” which can get tedious.
https://www.mage.space/
and
https://huggingface.co/spaces/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
don’t even need registration, but don’t expect too much of them.
All those free services I tried, always produce garbaggio results. Where is the actual good stuff?
large models are actually really expensive to run: either run it yourself, or put up with the fact that someone’s not going to pay a lot for people to just use because reasons?
Not sure how you mean. Stable Diffusion is the golden standard right now and it’s free. You just have to run it locally on your own hardware for the full configurability and features. It’s a pretty steep learning curve, and requires a decent, discreet GPU.
Stable diffusion + Automatic1111 + custom models and LoRAs. Completely free, only takes an hour or so to set up, and is top of the line.
You can get results as good or better than Midjourney with stable diffusion…but it’s not as streamlined as Midjourney is. you have to find the right model on Civitai.com, you have to craft the prompt right, you can use controlnet. And then if you want to go the extra mile, refine it with img2img.
The extreme configurability that comes from running Stable Diffusion locally can be blessing and/or curse. You need to fiddle around and get experienced with the settings to get good results, but once you get good at that you can get really good results.
You’re looking for Openart.ai 😏
Why the fuck is Discord being forced down my throat when I want to use openart.ai or midjourney?
Stable diffusion is free, you can install it on your computer
Stable Diffusion Web U by Automatic1111 is pretty excellent for doing image generation on your own hardware.
And even if your pc can’t run it there are always cloud hosted installs
Didn’t google block the usage of Stable diffusion on colab?
Awe yea seems like it :/ that sucks.
Damn. Thought they unblocked it again, maybe ;)
Out of the available image generators, Stable Diffusion is the best but be prepared to mess around with it to get the best results. If you have an iPhone or Mac, Draw Things is a great way to get started. If you want to dive head first into stable diffusion and have good hardware with lots of VRAM then try Automatic1111 as others have suggested.
I just downloaded Draw Things. I’m going to give that a whirl tonight!
I develop the ai horde myself! It’s the best and only one without a catch
what do you mean how do you do that?
My guess is they are working on this: https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui/
I actually ment https://aihorde.net/, Community
Thank you very much for your work