Let's talk about NovelAI image and story generator AI.

[damiangorlami]

nice!

do you have it run locally? does it involve lots of nerdy steps to setup?

It is extremely easy to set it up. Make sure you install Python and then download the following files

GitHub - AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui: Stable Diffusion web UI

Stable Diffusion web UI. Contribute to AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

There is also an installation guide which consists of 6 easy steps (Don't skip step 5 if you plan on generating females / NSFW, because faces can sometimes distort and GFPGAN can help restore the faces)

GitHub - AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui: Stable Diffusion web UI

Stable Diffusion web UI. Contribute to AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

After that you need to make sure you download the AI model and place it in the /Models folder.
You can download the default Stable Diffusion model or one of the pretrained ones on NSFW on this page:

Stable Diffusion Models

Contact Changelog Stable Diffusion Stable Diffusion v2.0 Stable Diffusion v1.5 [81761151] [a9263745] Stable Diffusion VAE ft-mse-original Stable Diffusion VAE ft-ema-original Stable Diffusion Inpainting v1.5 [3e16efc8] Stable Diffusion v1.4 [4af45990] [7460a6fa] [06c50424] Waifu Diffusion Waifu D...

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Lots of videos on YouTube on how to install it if you find the steps too nerdy / diffucult.
This guy does a great way on explaining the installation step by step in an user-friendly manner:

Also shared some examples of images that I've been able to generate with various different models and prompt combinations. There are subreddits out there dedicated in coming up with the best prompts to generate proper NSFW content.

Enjoy!

 

[damiangorlami]

yup, I played a bit with stable diffusion, it's pretty awesome. I was asking about novel ai thinking it was an alternative, but I looked it up now and noticed is a paid service

this was my latest stable diffusion prompt:

scifi cam girls! all in sequence, didn't handpick the images

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Cool results I like the overall style!

Novel AI is a paid service but the model got leaked. Lots of SD discord servers where you can find a download / torrent link.
Just add it to your /Models folder and start generating

 

[damiangorlami]

There are ways to check if the file is safe though. Every CKPT file that I download I run it through Sandboxie and then followed by a Pickle Scanner for potentially malicious code.

 

[Toonen1988]

A friend of mine gave me a link to Midjourney. The AI was working 'alright' I have to say. I created this AI generated image.

But now the negative side, you can only generated up to 25 pictures. After that you need to pay money, which I didn't do thank god. Because what happened afterwards was just disgraceful. Suddenly I received A LOT of spam through their discord (which you need to become member, to get the AI working). Not one or two messages, but TONS of spam messages. Sometimes I received up to 30 private messages, from that Discord server. Just out of nowhere, all with links, invites and other crap I needed to "accept". It's good that Discord has the option to see what servers you share with a person. So, I could see exactly where they are coming from.

Somehow I was suddenly also blocked on their whole Discord server for no reason. I contacted them through support channel, which was the only channel working for me. Suddenly a moderator asks me their names and proof. I send their ID, name and proof. After that, the moderator asks me to enable "developer mode" of Discord and share information of mine, so he/she could ban those people. Why would I share information of my personal Discord and enable developer mode, while the moderator has their names, and Discord ID?

I said to fuck off and I immediately left the Discord server and deleted the AI. I also read reports of people that had the same thing and also where scammed by the same company. I also read reports of people that can't cancel their subscription.

Also their terms and agreements are shady as fuck. It receives right now 61% 1 stars on Trustpilot. Their AI is working, I can't deny it and it was fun for what it is. But a very shady company. Thank god I didn't get any subscription.

 

[Toonen1988]

I must say, I do like Stable Diffusion. Now I don't need any "shady" website or strange Discord channel to play with a AI.

It's easy to set up, even without any coding skills.