vertex-ai-samples VS civitai

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a very befitting Machine Learning solution called Vertex Ai that handles Google Cloud's unified platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning (ML) models. Our goal is to build a simple Machine Learning application that optimizes all that GCP provides plus an implementation of continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD).

Cross posting some links from another post that HNers found helpful

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (marketing page)

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs (docs entry point)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (cloud console)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden (all the models)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative (studio / playground)

VertexAI is the umbrella for all of the Google models available through their cloud platform.

For the peer comments

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (main page)

- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/start/introduction-u... (docs entry point)

- https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai (cloud console)

Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

Google Cloud Platform (https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai): Conversely, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a comprehensive suite of AI and machine learning services, including APIs for vision, language, conversation, and structured data analysis. Whether you're analyzing images, interpreting human speech, or diving deep into data patterns, GCP has something for you.

VertexAI is a machine learning platform available on Google Cloud. It offers a variety of services to train and deploy AI models, including those for Generative AI.

Depending on how much work you want to put into it, you can get started at HuggingFace with their models and datasets, but you'd need compute power, multiple MLOps, etc. I was introduced to the concept in this video, since Google has their Vertex AI tools on Google Cloud, and there's always LangChain but I'm not sure about anything recent.

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.