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Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles
- nomilk 3y agoSite no longer loading (anyone else?). Possible hug of death from hn traffic: > A timeout occurred. Error code 524. Visit cloudflare.com for more information. 2024-01-13 04:34:06 UTC Wayback machine gives a snapshot as at a few days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20240113031449/https://midlibrary.io/styles https://web.archive.org/web/20240113031449/https://midlibrar...
- GaggiX 3y agoIf you like anime artists, there is this: https://rentry.co/NAIDv3artisttagtest https://rentry.co/NAIDv3artisttagtest, a list of 470 artists using the last model of NovelAI (this time they trained their model without removing artist names). Fun fact, this model is based on SDXL, finetuned probably on a cluster of H100s (from coreweave).
- Der_Einzige 3y agoThe consensus seems to be that the lack of open source SDXL anime fine tunes is simply due to laziness and lack of resources from the interested parties in the community. Datasets like from the boorus are already floating around online to train on. Always funny to see that furries are ahead of weeaboos in the war for the best open source nsfw generator
- Aeolun 3y agoI think it’s more that SD 1.5 is already fine for most purposes (and much, much faster) Just don’t see any difference in results except them taking 4x longer.
- ttul 3y agoIt’s an interesting example of a new technology that is inferior to the old one because the old one is superior in important ways (speed, ease of manipulation, and established toolsets).
- GaggiX 3y agoWell to be honest I don't really know what's the best furry SD XL model out there but recently this model has been released: https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0 https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0, it's probably far from the NovelAI checkpoint but I would be curious to know how it compares to the furry model you're talking about.
- echelon 3y ago> Always funny to see that furries are ahead of weeaboos in the war for the best open source nsfw generator That's hilarious. It'd be funny if they had a rivalry going and it resulted in better open source tooling.
- numpad0 3y agoI think that's just reflecting different levels of ethics standards - a bit like different stances on street graffiti
- makomk 3y agoLast I heard, everyone was struggling to fine tune SDXL on furry art too. The only community fine tunes that seem to have succeeded are ones aimed at taking things it was already designed to generate and trained on and making it actually good at those, or improving the aesthetics of its output.
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- brucethemoose2 3y agoLots of people (including potential trainers) struggle with SDXL I think. It just doesn't give you good results if you shove it into SD 1.5 frameworks and prompt it like SD 1.5.
- GaggiX 3y agoIf you're talking about anime, every popular SD v1.5 model out there has a backbone based on the leaked NovelAI model, so what SD XL lacks the most is people with compute power finetune it, that being said, this model: https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0 https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0 was recently released and it was finetuned for +500 A100-hours.
- Jackson__ 3y agoThe devs behind NovelAI have been talking about their training on the discord a little bit. According to their messages, it took about the same amount of compute to finetune the model, as it took for StabilityAI to train SDXL itself. No wonder other people struggle to train it, if it takes >=128 A100s to get the model to perform better than SD1.5 on only slightly OOD tasks (anime pictures, in this case.)
- sorenjan 3y agoIs there a big difference in the result from fine tuning a model compared to using a LoRA? I thought the idea with LoRAs was that updating all model weights are unnecessary?
- GaggiX 3y agoWell this is a very extensive finetuning, LoRA are usually convenient if you just want to add a character, a style or a concept to the model.
- xorbax 3y agoI like how it's called "Midilibrary" so it's obvious what it is "Midjlibrary" would have been so gauche and unclear
- GaggiX 3y agoIt's called midlibrary, not "midilibrary" fortunately or that would be very confusing.
- JeffSnazz 3y agoThese are the styles the company's accused of stealing, right?
- Legend2440 3y agoNo. This is a fan-made user guide for people who want to make things with midjourney.
- pg5 3y agoSo...yes, a fan made guide for those
- gumballindie 3y agoIt appears like. Since ai doesnt create art, it relies on someone else’s work to generate novel looking content. But by looking carefully you can see the hundreds of intermixed originals and most important the unique styles they’ve stolen. Pretty sad how ai has been overtaken by sociopaths.
- thih9 3y agoWhat would happen if a platform focused on a company like Disney, offering images in the style of Frozen / Cinderella / etc? Midjourney can already generate fire Elsa[1] and zombie Elsa[2]. I wonder if this kind of usage ever grows enough to start bothering corporations. [1]: https://prompthero.com/prompt/be1b58e6fef https://prompthero.com/prompt/be1b58e6fef [2]: (nsfw cartoon gore) https://prompthero.com/prompt/00e7433fb1a https://prompthero.com/prompt/00e7433fb1a
- ilaksh 3y agoYes, you can get Disney style and a lot of other copyrighted stuff. Yes, they are very bothered.
- thih9 3y ago> Yes, they are very bothered. How? Do you have any examples / sources?
- dudeinjapan 3y agoIf someone generates Elsa wearing Princess Leia’s bikini in Jabba’s palace, do the two Disney IPs cancel each other out? Asking for a friend.
- itronitron 3y agoI think you would need to combine Elsa with Princess Peach for the IP to cancel out.
- imhoguy 3y agoDunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.
- thih9 3y agoSick enough that it affects your spending habits? In any case AI companies will do their best to produce content that lands below that threshold.
- nness 3y agoI guess at the end of the day, they're just fakes like any other fake reproduction. They'll be sold on marketplaces, occasionally a few buyers will be duped. But most are buying the style, not the artist, and wouldn't care. The issue for this site is that they're using the artist names against the reproductions -- that could be argued as intentionally misrepresenting the origin of the works. I imagine, in no short order, they'll remove the artist's names or otherwise change the language to reflect that these are not the artists original works. I'm not sure what people would use these for, other than their own personal use? Maybe inspiration, mood-boarding, or concept art... Some printing at home? I don't know.
- dudeinjapan 3y agoNames are clearly intended to mean “In the style of ____.” No one would see “Van Gogh” on this page and think it’s an original.
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- pawelduda 3y agoA lot of these are very pleasant to look at.. yes, it's easy to spam them so it can get old very fast. But I'm in Midjourney socials and not gonna lie, everyday I see something that stands out and amazes me. Should I feel bad because I'm looking at a flashy AI fake?
- Zuiii 3y agoThis will sound like a stupid question, but is there a downloadable list of all the art styles understood by these models as an offline PDF? If there isn't, I'm very, very tempted to make one myself. Each style entry consists of a description and a list of models that understand it and any special tags or keywords the model needs to generate output with that style. I know we have a lot of websites dedicated to this, but this information is more suited for a wiki
- smusamashah 3y agoHere is a list of various artist/style cheat sheets available for SD 1.5 and SD XL. There may be other sheets for MidJourney but I have been into SD for a while and that's why I have collected these. https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/218e602d508e891a123929ce7d5885d4 https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/218e602d508e891a123929ce...
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoCan anyone share artistic projects that have used generative AI? Where it is used as a tool, and not as a goal. ie something that’s not: - Poster/illustration where stock photo would have been used beforehand - NSFW - Experiments trying to display model quality (like on /r SD) The closest I’ve found so far was Rock paper scissors (found from HN) [0], but it’s unclear if it was really less work than usual CGI/animation techniques, and for worse quality. I’d be particularly interested to know it has been used by (amateurs?) webtoons/comics, and how they have solved the issues related to consistency of style and character. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>ie something that’s not NSFW Well you eliminate a lot of examples with that criteria.
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoYou’re right, I meant porn rather than NSFW.
- elpocko 3y agoLast year I used Stable Diffusion + ControlNet to create a ~8x3 in sticker for my pal's motorcycle. I won't share the result here for privacy (and possible copyright/trademark) reasons. I created the basic design in InkScape, then used SD and several ControlNet adapters to render photorealistic images from the design until one was deemed perfect. My friend loved the result, and since I can only do some sort of glorified programmer art, I wouldn't have been able to deliver a high quality image like that without using SD.
- Adrig 3y agoOne of the best projects I saw was made during the “early” days of generative AI (2022) and the strange output fits perfectly the story. Summer Island by Steve Coulson [1] is a short comic book made by an art director who can't draw well. He used the AI to its strengths. [1] https://ianetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Summer-Island-001.pdf https://ianetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Summer-Islan...
- itronitron 3y agoAll of these have an obvious tell and which happens to be very similar to most commercial photography these days.
- mistrial9 3y ago> Who is Andrei Kovalev? I call BS -- every attribute of the "non-profit, volunteers" is calculated to deflect hostile rejection.. "community" has AI chat agents ready to help you? how many actual art school people do you know who tried to make their showcase website.. Is it like this one? Notice the Andrei says "studio photography" .. a tech skill, not an illustrator. as a representative of actual Art School people -- this is awful socially.. really
- throwaway743 3y agoAs a graduate of art school, I could give two shits about this matter. And please, don't speak for all of us.
- makomk 3y agoI do wonder how many distinct artistic styles Midjourney and other similar image generators actually have. Say that you you were to cluster all the styles it knows about based on similarity and then generate images of the same things with all of them - how far apart would the styles have to be before the difference between them is larger than the normal variability in output? It's my general understanding that getting a reasonably decent imitation of a particular artist's style is usually a lot more difficult than just putting their name in a prompt, that what that copies is generally fairly superficial and high-level stuff.
- jakearmitage 3y agoHow can I use this? For example: if I have a picture of my wife, how can I apply one of these styles to her picture? I've downloaded InvokeAI and it runs, but I can't get it to just apply a style to an existing picture. I wanted to give her a birthday present and her picture using the style of her favorite artist in a frame would be amazing.
- keiferski 3y agoClick on the style you want and then look for the text to the bottom left of the image that looks like this: Victorian era cabinet card --v 6 Upload a picture of your wife to Discord (to the Midjourney bot.) Copy its URL and paste it, along with the style words above. I'm not sure what InvokeAI is, but I imagine the style terms are basically equivalent.
- phyzome 3y agoYou could try asking the artist if they take commissions.
- ilikehurdles 3y agoI asked DALL•E 3 if he takes commissions and he said no. I tried screaming the question at photoshop too but it didn’t answer. I’m still awaiting MSPaint’s reply.
- GaggiX 3y agoThe best way to do this is to train a LoRA so that the model knows the person's likeness.
- synesthesiam 3y agoLook into training a Dreambooth model. Huggingface has a guide for this.
- ouraf 3y agoCloning a style doesn't replace an artist. the AI doesn't get things like proper lighting, emphasis, motion, perspective and, above all else, intention. They're also not copyrightable. if you use an AI piece in your product, anyone can take it and make a competing product with the same piece or prompt chain. They're good to replace crude doodles or making some references to have a real artist work on your idea, though. that way humans keep their jobs and machine improves the process.