<story><title>I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fy20</author><text>What nobody tells you is that to get the results you see people post online often requires hours of work for a single image.&lt;p&gt;First you need to refine the prompt so it is ultra specific (which OP has not done), then you need to generate a hundred or so images and pick the best ones. From there you can use img2img to refine it more, and once that&amp;#x27;s done you might want to go to Photoshop to add some finishing touches.&lt;p&gt;To get good results it is an art form at the moment, but of course as the tools get better eventually it will just be a click of a button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>As someone researching generative models, this is one of my pet peeves. There&amp;#x27;s been a rat race to show off high quality cherry-picked samples. Very few works actually show random samples. It is rather frustrating because when pointed out it still goes ignored. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why we look the other way, aren&amp;#x27;t these issues we want to solve? But if you tried to publish a paper with random results you won&amp;#x27;t get accepted.&lt;p&gt;I am also not worried about AI taking over art, exactly for the reasons you say. Even if alignment was a whole lot better you&amp;#x27;re never going to be able to perfectly describe an image in your head. Language is too limited. So it will always be a tool. Of course, it can enable fraud. But not many people are putting digital arts on their walls.&lt;p&gt;The other pet peeve is that people think generative models are only image or text. They so so much more.</text></comment>
<story><title>I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fy20</author><text>What nobody tells you is that to get the results you see people post online often requires hours of work for a single image.&lt;p&gt;First you need to refine the prompt so it is ultra specific (which OP has not done), then you need to generate a hundred or so images and pick the best ones. From there you can use img2img to refine it more, and once that&amp;#x27;s done you might want to go to Photoshop to add some finishing touches.&lt;p&gt;To get good results it is an art form at the moment, but of course as the tools get better eventually it will just be a click of a button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhold</author><text>Another trick you can do is when you find a composition you like, but it&amp;#x27;s off in whatever way, is lock down that seed, and then apply variation to that initial noise state, and produce a bunch more images from there.&lt;p&gt;The popular AUTOMATIC1111 webui implements it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;AUTOMATIC1111&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-webui&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Features#variations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;AUTOMATIC1111&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-webui&amp;#x2F;wiki...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>