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I also think it's over, but I don't see how Stable Diffusion won anything. If something, I see people flocking en masse to dalle3/google/amazon/whatever API is easy to integrate in one side, and consumers paying for Adobe & Canva in the other.

Stable Diffusion is the Linux-on-the-desktop of diffusion models IMO

(I agree w/ your comment on trusting Google - pretty sure they'll just phase this off eventually anyway, so I wouldn't bother trying it)

>>herval+(OP)
I don't think there's numbers that show "people flocking" to paid vs free open source offerings since running your own stable diffusion server/desktop isn't showing up on a sale's report.

Linux entered the market at a time when paid alternatives were fully established and concentrated, servicing users/companies for years who became used to working with them. No paid txt2img offering comes anywhere close to market dominance for image generation. They don't offer anything that isn't available with free alternatives (they actually offer less) and are highly restrictive in comparison. Anyone who is doing anything beyond disguised DALLE/Imagen clients, has absolutely no incentives to use a paid service.

>>herval+(OP)
I would totally agree. I’ve tried to setup stable diffusion a couple times, and even as a professional software engineer working in AI, every time I fail to get good results, get interrupted, lose track, and end up back at DALLE. I’ve seen what it can do, I know it can be amazing, but like Linux it has some serious usability issues

>>bbor+y6
Using this: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Then this: https://civitai.com/

And I have completely abandoned DALLE and will likely never use it again.

>>boh+yf
I was kind of hoping someone like you would reply - you’re a very kind person. Thank you for taking the time. Excited to try this advice tonight!

>>bbor+Ku
On Windows just use https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm

It installs dozens upon dozens of models and related scripts painlessly.