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image generation

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169points
49comments
#481of 3,515 in 2024
Top 14%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

14 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.

Execution: 2 for, 8 againstIdea: 8 for, 0 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Unified architecture handles many image tasks with strong instruction following

    From 2 comments
    • Elegant architecture, trained from scratch, excels at image editing. This looks very interesting! From https://arxiv.org/html/2409.11340v1 > Unlike popular diffusion models,…
      ed on HN
    • Using a single model to unify all image generation tasks, including many computer vision tasks and visual language reasoning, could transform future image generation models.…
      sswz on HN
  • Image editing with reference images works well

    From 2 comments
    • This looks promising. I love how you can reference uploaded images with markup - this is exactly what the field needs more of. After spending the last two weeks generating…
      block_dagger on HN
    • I mean, I struggle even getting Dall-E to iterate on one image without changing everything, so this is pretty cool
      oatsandsugar on HN

Objections

  • Generation often hangs or produces no output in the hosted demo

    From 4 comments
    • I left all the defaults as is, uploaded a small image, typed in "cafe," and 15 minutes later I am still waiting on this finishing.
      lelandfe on HN
    • Same, I left running for half an hour but nothing happened.
      cubefox on HN
    • Left it running 1 hour nothing happens. Maybe this is a social experiment.
      Citizen_Lame on HN
    • Well, at the moment it seems it's not working at all.
      freilanzer on HN
  • Character consistency is limited; clothing changes between images

    From 1 comment
    • It’s not really consistent - or anymore consistent than, say, SDXL with IP adapter. Even in their example images the character they’ve input comes out wearing different clothes.
      jowday on HN
  • Image quality is not outstanding

    From 1 comment
    • I was able to clone the repo and run it locally, even on a Windows machine, with only minimal Python dependency grief. Takes about a minute to create or edit an image on a 4090.…
      CamperBob2 on HN

Requests

  • Support for transparent images

    From 1 comment
  • Better text rendering in images

    From 1 comment
    • Anyone know how it handles Text? That's kind of my deal breaker, I like Ideogram for it's ability to do really cool fonts, etc.
      gremlinsinc on HN

Questions

  • What is the cost per edit

    From 1 comment
    • Curious what's the actual cost for each edit? Will this infra always be reliable?
      anyi09881 on HN
  • How the multimodal aspect works

    From 1 comment
    • could you elaborate on the multi modal aspect of this model?
      hyuuu on HN

Alternatives named

  • ComfyUI

    From 1 comment
    • Pretty cool, comfy ui and community is too cumbersome for me and still results in too much throwaway content
      yieldcrv on HN
  • DALL-E

    From 1 comment
    • This looks promising. I love how you can reference uploaded images with markup - this is exactly what the field needs more of. After spending the last two weeks generating…
      block_dagger on HN
  • Ideogram

    From 1 comment
    • Anyone know how it handles Text? That's kind of my deal breaker, I like Ideogram for it's ability to do really cool fonts, etc.
      gremlinsinc on HN
  • Flux via Replicate or Fal.ai

    From 2 comments
    • The simplest commercial product for finetuning your own model is probably Adobe firefly, although there’s no API access support yet. But there are cheap and only slightly more…
      ncoronges on HN
    • The easiest flux api I’ve seen is with Fal.ai It is expensive though- Flux dev images are like $0.035/image
      spaceman_2020 on HN

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