Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers

Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by devindotcom on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:16PM (#30252133)

I was just looking at some of her stuff yesterday, very cool. I'm even more of a noob though, since I'm not sure how to get this code (similar to other notebooks I've played with) into Colab to test out. If there's an obvious first/next step I should be taking, could anyone point me in that direction?

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by jcims on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:29PM (#30252276)

I think you need a google account to access free collab runtimes. If you have one, click here - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QBsaDAZv8np29FPbvjf...

Scroll down to prompts and put in your prompt. I just did:

    prompts = ['fire ants attacking a school bus cinematic 35mm']

(re 'cinematic 35mm', you'll find that there are little bumper phrases, like 'in the style of <artist>' or 'trending on artstation' that sort of thematically guide the output)

Click on 'Runtime->Run all' and let the notebook execute it's initialization steps and then start to generate the image. By default it goes 1000 iterations, and spits out what it's working with every 100 iterations. Once you get one you like you can update the prompt, re-run that cell and the one below it to generate something new.

I pay $9/mo to get access to better GPUs (usually P100 sometimes get better), the free accounts tend to get slower ones so it might take 30-60 minutes to complete per image.

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by devindotcom on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:39PM (#30252397)

Oh yes I pay for Colab - didn't see this linked from the other page, or rather wasn't sure where to find it in the various notebooks. This is exactly what I was looking for - setting up to do a run now. Thanks very much.

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by jcims on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:46PM (#30252489)

No problem. This is an older notebook. Poke around, Katherine has posted more recent ones and lots of people have added bells and whistles to make them easier to use. Have fun!

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by d13 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:54AM (#30256216)

Wow, thanks for this!! It’s really amazing and I had now idea how to get started.

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by nceasy on Monday February 07, 2022 @08:58PM (#30254077)

do i need to pay for it to work? i'm running the colab and i get memory issues

"CUDA out of memory."

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by jcims on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:06PM (#30254492)

It should work with all of the GPUs that collab has I believe. Try clicking Runtime->Restart and/or Restart and Run to see if that helps.

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by webmaven on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:32PM (#30264231)

Try reducing the pixel dimensions.

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by MWil on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:11PM (#30252806)

There are several Patreon creators you can support of coders creating customized Colab notebooks

Check out my other post for those that use a very customized version of ruDALL-e

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Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ... by breck on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:03PM (#30263798)

Do you have recommendations for creators to follow or Colab notebooks to use?

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