GhostlyStock
AI
generative image search
SHOW HN2022
190points
105comments
#305of 2,570 in 2022
Top 12%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 29 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Execution: 0 for, 11 againstPerformance: 5 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Some generated landscape and object images look striking
From 2 comments
The landscape and city photos are stunning. The ones with people and animals tend to have distorted faces or bodies. But keep up the good work. There’s a definitely a market for…
awb on HNWhoa this is cool and I would def used a more refined version of it. The images with people are a little bit... freaky but objects and animals look fine. I wonder if this exists…
ericmcer on HN
Related-result suggestions and the concept are interesting
From 2 comments
I really like this idea! Related results work fairly well. Tons of potential here! Ideas: Allow voting for prompts. Allow voting for results. (But try to prevent the rich get…
jtxt on HNGotta love some of these suggestions: "The Ethereum logo glowing above wet pavement, with a bull charging"
napsterbr on HN
Objections
Search returns unrelated or odd images; poor matching of prompts
From 4 comments
Doesnt work. I type my prompt and it gives results for something different.
poopnugget on HNNot sure I understand how to use this. I searched for "monkey on car" and these are the "categories" I get: "a dead monkey", "a monkey dancing", "a dead monkey" (again), "a ca"
barbazoo on HNIf I search for "bicycle repair shop", all I see are images for car repair shops.
Alex3917 on HNIt's sort of interesting, given the undeniable power that these new AI techniques have, just how limited the output is at the moment. Only 512x512 images. I tried a specific…
bscphil on HN
Human faces and bodies are distorted and creepy
From 3 comments
Some of these are a bit nightmarish! https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusion/files/b17d6f04-8d89-45a4-b2d1-7104c6318591/out-2.png…
nostromo on HNThe landscape and city photos are stunning. The ones with people and animals tend to have distorted faces or bodies. But keep up the good work. There’s a definitely a market for…
awb on HNIt still has trouble understanding sentences, it feels to me that it just generates images based on keywords and not the meaning of my sentence. For example, I tried "attractive…
rany_ on HN
Not a functional stock photo platform yet; lacks human curation
From 2 comments
Not sure how to evaluate that. Maybe it's kinda fun, but… I mean, generating crappy images from text isn't exactly new by now. It may be "an early version" (and this is exactly…
krick on HNActual stock photo websites have human reviewers and it's a big part of their value proposition.
bambax on HN
Images are only 512x512 and too low resolution for stock use
From 2 comments
512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for…
needle0 on HNIt's sort of interesting, given the undeniable power that these new AI techniques have, just how limited the output is at the moment. Only 512x512 images. I tried a specific…
bscphil on HN
Slow generation with no loading indicator
From 1 comment
They take too long to generate, but there is no clear indication of that. You should add a spinning mouse or other thing that shows that the server is working. (A robot paining a…
gus_massa on HN
Requests
Voting and curation of images and prompts
From 3 comments
In V2 we're planning to add a voting system and additional filtering/tagging to solve for a lot of these unusual/nightmareish summoned images. I for one am sorry for your…
jarrenae on HNWe're going to add voting to help empower users to sort between better/worse summoned images. And an API tool for devs to leverage is planned as well.
jarrenae on HNYou're spot on with the curation! I'm really exciting to add voting and weighing to the images. I think that's where this'll really start to shine. "Girl reading in a coffee…
jarrenae on HN
Better tags and filtering
From 2 comments
In V2 we're planning to add a voting system and additional filtering/tagging to solve for a lot of these unusual/nightmareish summoned images. I for one am sorry for your…
jarrenae on HNThat's one of the things I've found deeply interesting about the current generation of tools, there's little (if any) comprehension going on, it's really just trying to "enhance"…
jarrenae on HN
Non-square aspect ratios such as 16:9
From 2 comments
Would love the option to not just have square images, but other formats as well (especially 16:9)
omwow on HNSpot on. In my initial sketches for the site I had vertical/horizontal sorting for images, and I think we'll be able to add that pretty quickly.
jarrenae on HN
Upscaling of images
From 2 comments
512x512 is standard for SD generated images, but seems pretty low res when you look at it as a stock photo. Might be good to provide an AI upscaled version of the image for…
needle0 on HNUpsizing is something I'm really hoping to bring in the next version of the site. I'm imagining a variety of different tools to improve the images, so ideally if an image is good…
jarrenae on HN
URL-based API for fetching photos
From 2 comments
A simple url-argument-based API to get back a photo, similar to source.unsplash.com’s behavior would be terrific.
bredren on HN100% Agreed on this one. I was really hoping we'd have that feature ready before launching today. Hopefully we'll have an early version up in the next week or so.
jarrenae on HN
Questions
Whether Stable Diffusion output avoids copyrighted training data
From 1 comment
How safe is it to use those stock photos? How sure can one be that stable diffusion does not create any copyrighted work? Is the training data all freely licenced or is there a…
riedel on HN
Whether the search button and UX work on mobile
From 1 comment
Having a button in the search bar that's a blue circle that says Photo, etc, and then not having it start the generation process when clicked feels odd to me. Took me about 30…
CameronBanga on HN
Alternatives named
Unsplash
From 2 comments
Thanks for the feedback, and I totally agree. I'd really hoped to fill out the landing page a bit more before we launched today, but we weren't able to roll it out in time.…
jarrenae on HNThis is definitely a fair assessment. I think a lot of the "wow" factor is just seeing the generated images in the first place. In truth I think a lot of value will be added as…
jarrenae on HN
Getty Images and Adobe Stock
From 1 comment
Omg I cannot wait for human faces to become non-freaky with this technology. People pay real money to sites like Getty or Adobe (the former of which is owned by a corp that you…
wheresmycraisin on HN
Lexica
From 1 comment
Use the Lexica API and show images from them as well! https://lexica.art/docs
JimWestergren on HN