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Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by baddash on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:09AM (#36767696)
Out of curiosity, what are use cases/applications of this?

So what I know is that this generates images via browser rather than server. The only thing I can think of is not having to refresh the page in order to change an image or generate a new image. Which... hmm, well, that could mean websites whose visual design changes in real-time? And maybe changes in a way that would be functionally relevant/useful? That does seem pretty cool, although I'm not sure how useful Stable Diffusion is for generating UI components/visual aspects of a site.

Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by ShamelessC on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:34AM (#36767836)
What? The use case is to easily run it on your own computer. Without needing to be a programmer or install an application.
Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by asynchronous on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:40AM (#36767869)
Just like what most web apps allow- quick applications in a sandboxed environment on almost every type of hardware
Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by lionkor on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:34AM (#36768668)
Any hardware! As long as that hardware is overpowered for the job, so that the browser overhead is acceptable. Oh and it needs internet. Oh and it needs a reasonably large screen because padding and margins. Oh and it needs quite a bit of RAM to start. Maybe not any hardware.
Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:16AM (#36767739)
It's useful because it's expensive to generate these images en masse. It moves the compute cost to the client.
Re:StableDiffusion can now run directly in the browser on We... by Eduard on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:27AM (#36772889)
Privacy is a big plus for (purely) locally running models.

Sensitive prompts will not leak to some remote party.