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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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⚄︎ Perchance

This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

See this post for the Complete Guide to Posting Here on the Community!

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1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.

2. Be kind and friendly.

  • Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)

3. Be thankful to those who try to help you.

  • If you ask a question and someone has made a effort to help you out, please remember to be thankful! Even if they don't manage to help you solve your problem - remember that they're spending time out of their day to try to help a stranger :)

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5. Refrain from requesting Prompts for the AI Tools.

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  • See Perchance AI FAQ for FAQ about the AI tools.
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Hi Perchance team!

I've been delving into the world of AI image generation, and have found that the Perchance generator is head and shoulders above pretty much everything else, and ridiculously fast. I'm very impressed, and was wondering if you might indulge me with a few questions?

To preface, I feel like you can't be getting good value out of me as a user - I'm frequently generating a ton of images, and only seeing occasional ads. To that end, I'm trying to shift my heavier usage to my own local Stable Diffusion instance, but don't seem to get the same quality of results.

Completely understand if you want to keep the secret recipe a secret - but if you're willing to share - what checkpoints/LORAs/etc. are you using? My best guess is SD1.5 + Reliberate, which gives me better results than the other checkpoints I've experimented with, but it's definitely not the whole picture.

I also wanted to ask if you guys accept donations, or have a way for me to shout you coffee, beer, courvoisier, or whatever. :D

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Yep SD 1.5, and you should be able to replicate the text-to-image-plugin's results locally by just following vanilla tutorials on /r/stablediffusion or youtube with pretty much any of the top models on civitai - I'm not doing anything special. Your local results will actually end up be better than the plugin's because I have a stupid amount of regex and stuff trying (and somewhat failing) to prevent the model from creating oversexualised stuff for benign prompts, and that almost always comes at a cost of quality/coherence. I'm not the best person to ask about troubleshooting local setups, but I'd just advise that you follow a tutorial/guide exactly to start with, and then once you've replicated what they've shown, you start exploring your own prompts, tweaking parameters, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, even if it's taken me so long to respond. Whatever non-special things you're doing seem to work really well! It works a lot faster than my local instance (suboptimal video card to blame there) and I get really good consistent base results, which I can then pull into my own instance to do more fun stuff with inpainting, upscaling and the like. So hopefully that ad revenue is making it worth your while. :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's definitely worth investing in a fast graphics card if you're getting deep into AI stuff, but they're pricey. Inpainting and image-to-image should be possible on perchance within the next month or so if all goes well. Ad revenue doesn't cover all the server costs yet, so I pay for a portion of it out of my own pocket, but it'll eventually be self-sustaining and it's not 'breaking the bank' for me. Much closer to self-sustaining than it was 12 months ago when I made the plugin - research community has made SD inference a lot more efficient.

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