civitai VS Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion

I find it quite funny, especially if you realize that something like 90% of the Stable Diffusion model fine-tunes out there are actually made for generating porn or images of females. Go to the website that has the most image generation models to verify this for yourself: https://civitai.com

WARNING don't visit this site on your work computer.

Remember The Website Obesity Crisis [1] article from 2015, since then [2] things only got worse, and it is been almost 10 years already (at the end of 2024).

Is it foolish to say that in 10 more years you wont be able to navigate the web on a circa 2015 PC ? If nothing changes seems like it.

My old macbook from 2013 with latest Firefox is already can not handle loading https://civitai.com web page with 23.98 MB of JavaScript, it is just hangs for half a minute while trying to render this disaster of web frontend.

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

One of the most popular free AI image generators right now is Civitai. Civitai uses a cutting-edge AI model to turn text prompts into photorealistic images in seconds.

Soz, I don't like to cross link my accounts, especially with all this TSWift shenanigans going around. But, if you look at https://civitai.com/ plenty of people have links to their ko-fi accounts where you can commission them (heck you may even find me somewhere on there).

civitai.com ?

all the samples images on models at https://civitai.com/ have prompts included. I used to have a bunch of sites that list prompts bookmarked, but I lost all my bookmarks recently :(

https://civitai.com/ most people grab models here these days I think. At least I do. And yeah, make sure to put checkpoints in the model folder, and lora in the lora folder, and hit the refresh button and it should show up.

Go to civitai.com, look for images that look realistic, study their prompts and the models used to generate them.

Tons of models to pick from on Civitai. I have a bunch downloaded for making NPCs for DnD.

Tons of stuff here, no? https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion/

Joe Penna's Dreambooth (Tutorial|24GB) Most popular DB repo with great results.

1) The https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion instructions say to use the 1.5 checkpoints - is that the latest? Can I use the 2+ models or?

I quickly turned to the second library, https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion, because its readme was very encouraging, and its results were the best. Unfortunately, to use it on Colab, you need to sign up for Colab Pro to use advanced GPUs (at least 24GB of VRAM), and training a model requires at least 14 compute units. As a poor Chinese person, I could only buy Colab Pro from a proxy. The results from JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion were fantastic, and the preparation was straightforward, requiring only <=20 512*512 photos without writing captions. I used it to create many beautiful photos.

I've found EveryDream to be brilliant and have switched from JoePenna's Dreambooth because I've found I get better results so long as I provide good captions for all the images, even if preparing the dataset takes 3x as long (took me 2 hours to crop and label the 54 images).

From what I know you can train with whatever size you want. But you need software that will support it. For example, ShivamShrirao/diffusers repo seems to allow a change of dimension. Also, you need HW that would support the training, because bigger images need more VRAM, for example,Joe Penna repo is using ~23GB with 512x512px so probably it's not a valid option. But the ShivamShrirao repo has optimizations that allow to run it with less VRAM.

This is a good starting place: https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion