InvokeAI
AI
image generation toolkit
SHOW HN2022
414points
102comments
#83of 2,570 in 2022
Top 4%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Execution: 3 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works well on consumer GPUs and Linux, easy to hack on
From 1 comment
Oh, I used the dreeam.py script to back a Telegram bot. It later ended up in my demo for my talk Chat Bots as User Interfaces (with Elixir):…
lawik on HN
Better UX than alternatives
From 1 comment
To be fair- Auto has been acquiring features at an insane clip (recently getting banned from the SD discord for accusations of code theft lol) I think Invoke is competitive for…
sophrocyne on HN
Clean CLI and fork-friendly codebase
From 1 comment
I've been using a modified version of lsteins fork since almost the beginning. Recommended! It does lack some of the features of eg automatic1111, but it has good cli, and…
nohat on HN
Objections
Installation is complicated and needs command-line setup
From 3 comments
Can you make the ui InvokeAI as easy to install as running a Windows 11 command line script? I couldn't get it to work following…
iFire on HNThis is great but it requires lots of "geek" (installing dependencies, borking your system with brew, etc...) Vs DiffusionBee which just works https://diffusionbee.com/ Maybe the…
gernb on HNI am super stoked to see all these Stable Diffusion forks floating around, and I don't want to shit on the authors and their work that hard, but I swear the installation and…
pdntspa on HN
Requires a GPU and high VRAM
From 2 comments
Sounds awesome! Unfortunately, it says that it requires a GPU. Please consider making it accessible to people without a GPU, for example using OpenVino like this (command line…
Timwi on HNMin requirements say 12gb, I take it this doesn't have the optimizations that automatic1111 has for <8gb cards?
pdntspa on HN
Model files stored inside the code repo
From 1 comment
I am super stoked to see all these Stable Diffusion forks floating around, and I don't want to shit on the authors and their work that hard, but I swear the installation and…
pdntspa on HN
Requests
One-click installer
From 2 comments
Can you make the ui InvokeAI as easy to install as running a Windows 11 command line script? I couldn't get it to work following…
iFire on HNOne click install is a goal, we just need a contributor who is confident taking it on as a project.
sophrocyne on HN
CPU or non-NVIDIA GPU support
From 2 comments
Sounds awesome! Unfortunately, it says that it requires a GPU. Please consider making it accessible to people without a GPU, for example using OpenVino like this (command line…
Timwi on HNHow hard of a requirement is the NVidia graphics chip? Polaris era AMD chips do work decently at the 4gb level (although a bit finicky) and Navi/Big Navi AMD cards work…
cmxch on HN
Configurable model locations
From 1 comment
I am super stoked to see all these Stable Diffusion forks floating around, and I don't want to shit on the authors and their work that hard, but I swear the installation and…
pdntspa on HN
Less restrictive safety filters
From 1 comment
What about safety filters? All the safety filters in the SD interfaces/services I used so far are too false-positive happy. Can these filters be disabled or at least toned down…
hda2 on HN
Questions
Does it run on Mac M1?
From 1 comment
I was unable to get this to run on the Mac M1 over the last week - has anyone here had any success?
ionwake on HN
How well does inpainting handle watermarks?
From 1 comment
How good are solutions like stable diffusion at inpainting nowadays? What about the watermarks of getty et at that have been part of some of dall-e 2.0 images. Could one feasably…
Uke on HN
Alternatives named
AUTOMATIC1111 web UI
From 2 comments
Is there anything new here that might interest an existing user of auti's gui to switch?
KaoruAoiShiho on HNOr you can stay on automatic1111 and use https://diffusionui.com/b/automatic1111 for better UX.
hleszek on HN
DiffusionBee
From 2 comments
This is great but it requires lots of "geek" (installing dependencies, borking your system with brew, etc...) Vs DiffusionBee which just works https://diffusionbee.com/ Maybe the…
gernb on HNMaybe I missed it but didn’t see https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui
grosswait on HN
stable-diffusion-ui (cmdr2)
From 1 comment
https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui is pretty popular, and is a 1-click installer for Win and Linux (Mac coming soon). Quite a lot of features, and well-liked by users…
cmdr2 on HN