Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. https://krita-artists.org/t/change-in-policy-for-topics-rela...

(I am part of a group that builds UI on top of open models, but we stopped working on our Krita version for that reason.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0

the video is mindblowing because on one hand, adobe photoshop announced this as "their own next big thing" and here we have an open source software replicating this same thing, so cool.

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this also means photoshop doesnt have the "moat" they seem to have built around the generative ai thing and their software.

I saw a person using this. The system had 4090, which can pull about 20-30 iter/sec. This roughly translates to 4 image/sec with 8 iter/image. This allows interactive AI drawing (thou a bit quirky). Once the desired image is reached, the user can re-run w/ 30-50 iterations to finalize the image. This is really cool.

> AMD GPU: supported via DirectML, Windows only

Uh... I'm not happy with this trend. Thankfully there is an option for using a ComfyUI, a torch based project as a backend.

At this point it seems pointless to even bother to try given that AI will generate all possible artwork within a couple years.

I mean. Say you get "good" at using this. What's the life expectancy at any kind of creative outlet you could have that would support you? I mean if we're talking this is fun as a toy, yeah ok. I could see that. But as a job? When everyone can paint no one is paid for it.

I suppose that we could all go back to paying people who can physically lift things or wait on tables, but that's about it.

I want to use this, but then I just think "Holy shit, what if I get good at this and then get my hopes up like I did with React? What am I going to do, sell artwork that anyone can make for next to nothing on the internet?" I believe I could probably come up with some cool paintings, but the question is "why"? Everyone else on the internet will generate all the possible content it's possible for me to come up with anyway, so why does it matter?

And if that makes me care about "money" then yeah, I care about money. So what?

All of that being said I'm now going to draw a latex glad ninja being molested by a demon. Also I'm broke and living in a homeless shelter. But I can get a supercomputer to make me draw sexy girls so I have that going for me.

A theoretical nice thing about Krita and art in these past decades was that you could be an 18 year old with some ok drawing skills, a thinkpad, a secondhand wacom tablet and a version of krita, and the internet, this wonderful innovation, could enable you to make some money as an artist. If the future expectation is that artists all have 2000 euro graphics cards, I think that will really make art a lot less democratic.

Trying it now and will update later (as a comment), takes a little while to download and install.

One note about the installation on Ubuntu is that you need to install Krita first, run it, and then copy the plug-in to the desired folder - otherwise there is nowhere to copy it to.

They list under hardware requirements "a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long"

Does anyone have any idea what would very long mean on a 4GB VRAM card?

Too bad I don't have the Hardware to run it. Anyone had success with stable diffusion on Steam Deck ? The only thing that works for me is https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu , but it takes 1m per 512x512 image and is LCM

This looks incredible. It runs locally???

Does anyone know / tried if it works with multiple GPUs?

It says Mac OS support is untested, but wouldn't Mac OS be a great test bed, with many graphic pro users, and Apple Silicon running Stable Diffusion out of the box? DiffusionBee already does in-/outpainting and basically all the other things this integration is promising, you only have to copy/paste image data and resolution/context parameters I guess. But then this brings in the Python ML stack which seems like a no-go for an end-user product AFAICS, unless you wanted to generate endless support tickets.