Do you mean this one? https://huggingface.co/darkstorm2150/Protogen_Infinity_Offic...

On the same topic, is there some sort of 'awesome list' of finetuned SD models? (something better than just browsing https://huggingface.co/models?other=stable-diffusion)

Not sure why this is downvoted. Civitai does in fact list a bunch of fine tuned models and can be sorted by highest ranked, liked, downloaded, etc. It is a good resource. Many of the models are also available in the .safetensor format so you dont have to worry about a pickled checkpoint.

I didn't downvote but I have to say the images shown on that page are hilariously juvenile. I was a teenager once so I get it but I'm guessing the content is where the downvotes are coming from?

"The internet is for Porn! The internet is for Porn! So grab your dick and double click! For Porn! Porn! Porn!"

Apologies for the bad taste, but I simply love that song, an absolute classic

https://youtu.be/j6eFNRKEROw

Anyhow, regarding civai, you can filter out the NSFW models quite easily

Ought be noted that protogen 5.3 even when it is not an explicit porn model, it was trained with explicit models... So it can be... Raucy as well

Looking at this site, I would argue that the canonical "hello world" of an image diffusion model is a picture of a pretty woman. The canonical "hello world" for community chatbots that can run on a consumer GPU will undoubtedly be an AI girlfriend.

Lena all over again

Thanks.

BTW I love your app! At my desk I use Automatic1111 (because I have a decent GPU), but it's so nice to have a lean back experience on my iPad. Also, even my 6yo son can use it, as he doesn't need to manipulate a mouse.

Wow. Is there something like this for text models?

why are they all big breasted women?

Here are the protogen models https://civitai.com/user/darkstorm2150

I didn't understand a single word you said :D

sd checkpoint -- stable diffusion checkpoint. a model weights file that was obtained by tuning the stablediffusion weights file using probably something like dreambooth on some number of midjourney-generated images.

a1111 / invokeai -- stable diffusion UI tools

Protogen series -- popular stablediffusion checkpoints you can download so you can generate content in various styles

It's actually worse, because automatic and invoke will let you chain up GANs to fix faces and the like, and both have trivial installation procedures.

This offering is like going back to August 2022.

HN is just incredibly bad at figuring out what kind of ML projects are worth getting excited about and what aren't.

MJ v4 doesn't even use Stable Diffusion as a base [0]; a fine-tune of the latter will never come close to achieving what they do.

[0] - https://discord.com/channels/729741769192767510/730095596861...

It doesn’t use stablediffusion?

I thought everything besides dall-e was sd under the hood.

Mj earlier versions were around before SD came out. Before dall-e 2 too, but after 1 IIRC. So I assume they have their own custom setup. Perhaps based on dall-e 1 paper originally (not weights as they were never published) and improved from there.

Interesting i thought stable diffusion was the only other "big player" besides OpenAI because of the expenses in training and extrapolating from papers / new research.

Is Midjourney heavily funded? Because if they can battle SD why aren't we seeing lots of people doing the same, even in the Open Source space?

I just gave Protogen a spin and the diversity of outputs it gave me was abysmal. Every seed for the same (relatively open-ended) prompt used the same color scheme, had the same framing, and the same composition. Whereas with SD 1.5/2.1, the subject would be placed differently in-frame, color schemes were far more varied, and results were far more interesting compositionally. (This is with identical settings between the two models and a random seed)

So unless you want cliche-as-fuck fantasy and samey waifu material, classic SD seems to do a much better job.

Yes, protogen is based on merging of checkpoints. The checkpoints it's merged from are also mostly based on merging. Tracing the degree of ancestry back to fine tuned models is hard, but there's a ton of booru-tagged anime and porn in there.

If there's one style I dislike more than the bland Midjourney style, it's the super-smooth "realistic" child faces on adult bodies that protogen (and its own many descendants) spit out.

> This is just a sd checkpoint trained on output of Midjourney

Which is sub-optimal -> bad. You don't want to train on output from an AI because you'll end up with a worse version of whatever that AI is already being bad at (hands, foot, and countless other things). This is the AI feedback loop that people have been talking about.

So instead of figuring out what Midjourney has done to get such good result, people just blatantly straight copied those results and fed them directly into the AI, as true as the art thief stereotype they are.