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I'd bet this has a significant impact on the community. From what I've seen - experimenting with an AMD card that crashes and sends me to bed early after a bit
by roenxi 3y ago
I'd bet this has a significant impact on the community. From what I've seen - experimenting with an AMD card that crashes and sends me to bed early after a bit of stable diffusing - there is a power distribution of graphics cards out there. Models that play nicely with less memory and slower cards get more attention from the hordes of anonymous copyright infringers who power the llama-wearing-tophat LORAs and checkpoints.
SDXL isn't there yet but we're getting mighty close. SD1 felt a lot like shouting words at an idiot savant to try and inspire something good. SDXL gives me the impression I'm explaining what I want to a talented but verbally challenged painter who will attempt to draw what I want. The trajectory seems to be that we'll reach something close to natural English in maybe 2-6 years and if AMD could please keep fixing crashes that'd be lovely.
But seriously, halving the model size and doubling the speed will mean a lot more people can use it. That is a big deal because some of them will spend time training in more data for specific applications and setting up tooling to work around limitations.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoA problem with SDXL is that its just different. The main prompting syntax is different, and many UIs don't even implement the positive/negative style prompting. SD 1.5 has a ton of inertia, and ultimately its still smaller than SDXL.
- heroprotagonist 3y agoI, for one, hope the llama-wearing-tophat LORAS meet the smarmy looking turtle-neck mfers who just HAD to rebind all the sane keybindings on macs in order to 'think different' and build a usability moat around their OS. And I hope they kick butt when they do. But that's just on a personal level. I love that LLM are getting more accessible and I want that trend to continue.