4 ms·
Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description
- axg11 5y agoFor those curious to try but don't want to pay, use the code: MACHINELEARNINGART to try for free (valid for 5 uses).
- spython 5y agoI tried to contact you by mail but it got returned with: Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command).
- axg11 5y agoApologies - this should be fixed now. If you have any issues email: support@makeai.art
- entropie 5y agoThis code is invalid.
- axg11 5y agoThe free codes have been used up unfortunately. I'll add more when the current queue length becomes shorter.
- anotheryou 5y agoAre you one of the girls or guys behind this?: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Foi0mCSE6NrW9oI3Fhni7158Krz4ZXdH https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Foi0mCSE6NrW9oI3Fhn... It's basically that in monetized/with stripe, right?
- axg11 5y agoIt's a very high-level architecture to that, yes :) I did some fine-tuning on scraped images of modern art to hopefully result in more visually pleasing images.
- Malcx 5y ago$1 per image? That's going to be a really tough sell based on the quality of the sample images. Without a free trial I'll never get to see if this is any good for my own stuff. ("free" means no account creation needed even if the output is watermarked)
- axg11 5y agoThat's a great point regarding a free watermarked trial. I'll look into adding that.
- armchairhacker 5y agoI would pay for a service like this, but $1 per image is too much. Does it really cost that much to run the neural network and create 1 image?
- balazshoranyi 5y agoA pretrained model from the good folks over at huggingface: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini. Also provides a free demo.
- axg11 5y agoHuggingface is really an incredible org. I hope they continue on the same excellent path. They recently raised $40M and I imagine there will eventually be stronger pressure to monetize their work.
- corysama 5y agoFor HN: There is and active community on Reddit exploring this tech using free Google Colab notebooks. A few of us pay Google $10/month for practically unlimited usage. https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/ https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/ For OP: The notebooks have very awkward UX. So, putting a pretty front-end on it is a value-add. But, it won't last. Your base cost is 5 minutes of GPU time. You will very soon be competing with free downloadable programs and much cheaper alternatives. And, I know from a ton of experiments that getting good results out of these systems takes a lot of practice and attempts. Charging $1 per dice roll where most of the time you roll crap will make people angry fast. What I'd recommend is building a machine with as many 32GB K80 GPUs as possible. They are awkward to build around and quite slow, but cheap if you can find them and have a surprisingly large amount of RAM. Let people use that machine for free to generate low-rez images. Limit 1 GPU per person at a time. And, figure out how to use a low-rez generated image to seed a 1080p version in the GAN using a CPU run with 64GB of RAM. Then take the output of that and AI-upscale it to 4K or something. Charge for the upscaled, denoised version of their favorite creations. Not for every time they roll the dice. Then hook up with a painting-on-demand service and sell drop-shipped prints of people creations.
- axg11 5y agoThis is an interesting idea, essentially a platform to allow people to produce interesting/creative images and distribute from there. I agree with you that this is not a giant leap or value-add from what is out there. I'm hoping to iterate from where it is right now. I created this over the last few days as a hobby project to learn a few technologies.
- spython 5y agoThe K80 seems indeed quite affordable. But would multi-GPU setup work well for these cases? Is the RAM shared?
- corysama 5y agoNot shared. But, you want to run lots of times. So, 8 cheap GPUs can run 8 separate experiments in parallel.
- protogenes 5y agoI did something similar - free to use for image generation but you can get your own artwork on Canvas: https://neuralblender.com/ https://neuralblender.com/
- axg11 5y agoGreat, I like the name! I'm trying it now.
- axg11 5y agoHere's my result: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ai.protogenes/art/3ed8a7fa-f60b-11eb-804d-2b48997855eb.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/ai.protogenes/art/3ed8a7fa-f60b-11e... "a monkey riding a rocket" I think it works well :) Which architecture is this based on? Did you consider any trips or fine-tuning to generate images that are perceptually similar to art?
- protogenes 5y agoIt is based on VQGAN (trained on imagenet) and Open AI's CLIP. To make it more similar to art you would need to do some "prompt engineering. Try: "painting of ..." or "... painted by Van Gogh"
- protogenes 5y agoto everyone who is trying it -> just scaling up the system now. Please be patient and keep your tab open. The image will eventually appear :)
- corysama 5y agoClicking "Get it on canvas" takes me straight to "enter your personal information" with no clue of what's going on. Noooooooope.
- protogenes 5y agoThanks for pointing this out. Actually NeuralBlender.com was not to be released to the public yet, but the topic in this thread kind of invited it. I will clarify that and improve the UX.
- ronenlh 5y agoI would make all creations public by default, and have a gallery area. This would add to my trust in what the 0.99$ does, as well as be cool on its own.