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AI Horde
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Donations now don't have to go through patreon or github anymore!
https://haidra.net/haidra-now-accepts-donations-through-this-haidra-net/
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SDNext Update for 2024-11-21
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"The chip design industry is dominated by proprietary tools with costly licenses, making access difficult for small companies & students", says Carlos Ruiz Naranjo of TerosHDL.
"To overcome this dependency on proprietary actors, the #openhardware movement is trying to design a fully open workflow for creating low-level hardware. TerosHDL offers a unified interface for over 25 open source tools, including simulators & HDL synthesis tools.
Interview with Carlos https://nlnet.nl/project/TerosHDL/interview.html
#NGI #NGI0
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When I started developing Hypnagonia 3 years ago, I didn't envision it would lead me to a path of training neural networks, and yet here we are...
Aha, it works! Cool you can now request #AIHorde image generations via the @stablehorde_generator on #Bluesky!
@stablehorde_generator draw for me a test
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It’s been cooking for a while but we can now officially announce that the Flux.1-schnell is finally available on the AI Horde!
Flux is one of the most exciting Generative AI text2image models to come out this year, from a team of ex-stability.ai developers, and seemingly consumed all the attention of the GenAI enthusiasts overnight. It’s a very powerful model but as a downside it requires a significantly more powerful PC to run than the more popular SDXL models were until now.
The model available on the horde is primarily the fp8 compact version we took from civitAI, as it simplifies the amount of downloads we have to juggle.
I was really eager to offer the flux.1-dev version as well, as it has a lot more LoRas available and is a bit more versatile, but sadly its license contains some requirements which do not appear to allow a service like the AI Horde to provide it, even though it’s a completely free service for everyone. However we have reached to the Black Forest Labs via email to ask for clarification or exception for this and will let you all know if we hear back.
To use it, head over to Artbot or Lucid Creations and simply select the Flux.1-Schnell fp8 (Compact) model for your generation. However keep in mind that this model is quite different from the Stable Diffusion models you’re used to until now, so you need to adjust your request as following to get good results:
- Set sampler to k_euler
- Set steps between 4 and 8 (4 is enough for most images)
- Set cfg to 1
Also keep in mind that the model won’t use the negative prompt. Instead it benefits massively from using native speech to describe what you want to draw instead of a tag-based approach.
If you are running a dreamer worker make sure you check our instructions in our discord channel on the best settings to run flux. This is a big model, so GPU with 16G-24G VRAM are the best for running it at a decent speed and we could use all the help we can get.
If you are making integrations with the AI Horde, make sure you use the flux branch of the image reference repository until it’s merged into main on the end of the month, if you’re using it to retrieve model requirements.
Along with flux, tazlin has done some amazing work on adding the latest version of comfy and improving the stability and speed of the worker. I mean, just look at this changelog! This also greatly improves our support for AMD cards. They might not be as fast as nvidia, but they should work!
Finally we’ve added some improvements on the horde itself to allow slower workers to offer models. If you have an older GPU which often gets timed out and put on maintenance on the Horde due to speed, you can now set yourself as an extra_slow_worker which will extend your TTL and will be used by things like automated bots, or apps like that sweet AI Wallpaper Changer.
Finally, I’ve also extended our deployments ansible collection so that if you use a Linux system, you can easily deploy any number of reGen workers, even multiple in the same server to take advantage of multiple GPUs. It will even deploy the AMD drivers for you if you want it. With this I am continuing to extend the tools to allow more people to run the AI Horde infrastructure on their own.
We hope the existence of flux on the Horde will allow unlimited creativity from people who want access to the model but don’t have the hardware to run it. Now more than ever, people with mid-range GPUs can offer what they can run, such as SDXL or SD 1.5 models, and in turn, benefit from others offering the larger models like flux and we all benefit through mutual aid!
Enjoy!
Hooray, the AI Horde is now two years old!
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We have another new feature available for people to use from the AI Horde. This is the capacity to use Layer Diffuse to generate images with a transparent background directly (as opposed to stripping the image background with a post-processor).
As someone who’s dabbled into video game development in the past (which was in fact the reason I started the AI Horde) being able to generate sprites, icons and other assets can be quite useful, so once I saw this breakthrough, it immediately became something I wanted to support.
To use this feature, you simply need to flip on the transparent switch if your UI supports it, and the Horde will do the rest. If you’re an integrator, simply send “transparent: true” in your payload.
Take note that the images generated by this feature will not match the image you get with the same seed when transparency is not used! Don’t expect to take an image you like and remove the background this way. For that you need to use the post-processor approach.
Also keep in mind, not every prompt will work well for a transparent image generation. Experiment and find what works for you.
As part of making this update work, me and Tazlin also developed, discovered and fixed a number of other issues and bugs.
What would be most interesting for you is a slight change on how hires-fix works. I discovered that the implementation we were using was using the same amount of steps for the upscaled denoising which was completely unnecessary and wasting compute. So we now use a smart system which dynamically determines how many steps to use for the hires-fix based on the denoising strength you used for hires-fix and the steps for the main generation, and we also exposed a new key on the API where you can directly pass a hires-fix denoising strength.
The second fix is allowing hires-fix on SDXL models, so now you can try to generate larger SDXL images at the optimal resolution.
Finally there were a lot of other minor tweaks and fixes, primarily in the horde-engine. You can read further for more development details on this feature.
This update required a significant amount of work as it required that we onboard a new comfyUI node. Normally this isn’t difficult, but it turns out this node was automatically downloading its own LoRa models on startup, and those were not handled properly for either storage or memory. Due to the efficiency of the AI Horde worker, we do a lot of model preloading along with some fancy footwork in regards to RAM/VRAM usage.
So to make the new nodes work as expected, I had to reach in and modify the methods which were downloading models so that they use our internal mechanisms such as the model manager. Sadly the model manager wasn’t aware of strange models like layer diffuse, so it required me adding a new catch-all class of the model manager for all future utility models like these.
While waiting for Tazlin to be happy with the stability of the code, we discovered another major problem: The face-fixer post-processors we were using until now had started malfunctioning, and generating faces with a weird gray sheen. After some significant troubleshooting and investigation, we discovered that ComfyUI itself on the latest version had switched to a different internal library which didn’t play well with the custom nodes doing the face-fixing.
First I decided to update the code of the face-fixer nodes we were using, which is harder than it sounds, as it also downloads models automatically on startup, which again needs to be handled properly. Updating the custom nodes fixed the codeformer face-fixer, but gfpgan remained broken and the comfyUI devs mentioned that someone would have to fix it. Unfortunately those nodes didn’t seem to be actively maintained anymore so there was little hope to just wait for a quick fix.
Fortunately another custom node developer had run into the same problems, and created a bespoke solution for gfpgan licensed liberally, which I could copy. I love FOSS!
In the meantime, through our usual beta testing process, we discovered that there were still some funkiness in the new hires-fix approach, and Tazlin along with some power users of the community were able to tweak things so that they could work more optimally.
All in all, quite a bit of effort in the past month for this feature, but now we provide something which along with the embedded QR Code generation, I’ve seen very few other GenAI services provide, if at all.
Will you use the new transparent image generation? If so, let us know how! And remember if you have a decent GPU, you can help other generate images by adding your PC onto the horde!
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The second fediverse canvas event just concluded and I’m very happy how this turned out. In case you don’t know what this is. Check out this post and then take your time to go and explore the second canvas in depth before it’s taken down, and look for all the interesting and sometimes even hidden pieces of pixel art.
This time I had a more interesting idea to participate. I decided to draw the Haidra Org logo. I didn’t expect a massive support, but was pleasantly surprised with how many people joined in to help create it after my initial post about it and my announcement on the AI Horde discord server. Some frontends like horde-ng even linked to it with an announcement.
Almost as soon as it started, we ended up conflicting in our placement with someone who was drawing a little forest on just below and to our left. I decided that they can have the foreground since we had plenty of space available which avoided any fighting over pixels. All in all, we managed to complete it within half a day or so which is pretty cool I like to think and we even got a small “garden” so to speak.
Afterwards I thought it would be interesting to have the Haidra tendrils “touch” various points of importance or sprites that I like. I decided to extend out as if we’re made of water and a lot of other “canvaseers” joined in to help which I found really sweet.
First we extended towards the (then) center of the canvas (top left on the featured image above), passing next to the Godot logo, below OSU and finally reached the explosion of the beams. That took most of the first day but people were still pretty active, even though the infrastructure of the event had already started buckling under its own success.
Fortunately as we could “flow” like water and even “go under” other pixelart, we didn’t encounter any resistance in our journey, and a lot of people gave us a helping hand as well.
Once this was achieved on a whim, I decided to double down on the “river” similaity, and drew a little 17px pirate ship to show our roots and went to bed. When I woke up next morning, I was surprised to discover a Kraken was attacking it making a really cool little display of collaborative minimalistic art.
This kind of thing is why I love events like these. I love emergent stuff like these and seeing people putting the own little touches on what other started is awesome!
The next day the canvas had extended to be double in size and so a whole new area to the right was available, I had already noticed someone had created a little pirate banner towards the new canvas center, but it was alone and sad. So I decided we should try to give it a little bit of that Haidra embrace. So a long journey started with a new tendril to reach it. I had a rough idea of the path to follow as the direct route was blocked, but as soon as other started adding to it, it almost took a life of its own on its journey.
Eventually, towards the middle of the second day we reached it, passing under Belgium, through some letters and crossing the big under-construction trans flag before going over piracy, before I spawned yet another pirate ship before waterfalling down onto the mushroom house.
At this point, the whole event took a dramatic turn as the performance problems had become so severe, that the admin decided to take the whole thing down to fix them, rather than let people get frustrated. This took half a dozen hours or so, and even though the event was extended by 24 hours to make up for it, the event momentum was kneecapped as well.
Once the canvas was back up for the third day, the next objective I had was a much longer journey to try and touch The Void that was extending from the top right. When I started, the path was still mostly empty, but as we moved towards it, the canvas became more more congested, forcing us to take some creative detours to avoid messing with other art.
All in all, we flowed over the Factorio cog, creating a little lake and spawning a rubber duckie in the process. Then through the second half of the trans flag, which caused a minor edit war, as the canvaseers thought we were vandalizing. Then the way up and over the massive English flag was sorta blocked, so we had to take a detour and slither between the Pokemon to its left first.
Until finally we reached the top of the English flag, where I took a little creative detour to draw a little naval battle. My plan was to have an English brigantine fighting with two pirate sloops, but as soon as I finished it, other jumped in with their own plans. First one of my pirate ships revealed itself as a Spanish privateer instead (which I suspect was a reference to the recent football events). And then over the course of the next two days, the three ships kept changing allegiances every couple of hours. Quite the little mini-story to see unfold.
Finally we were almost at our final objective, only to discover that our final objective was not there anymore. The Void had been thoroughly contained and blocked by a massive cat butler (catler?). The only thing left to touch, was a single solitary void tendril on the top. Surprisingly, as soon as we reached it, it livened and flourished into life, which was certainly not my original idea, but I went with it happily.
Having achieved all I wanted to do, and with the event (and the day) drawing to a close, I decided there’s no point setting any more goals and just left those interested start extending Haidra on a whim. You can see my final post here, which also links to all my previous posts, which also contain some historic canvas images, showing the actual state of the board at the time of the posting.
All in all, I had a lot of fun, and enjoyed this way more than Reddit /r/place which is botted to hell and back, making contributions by individual humans practically meaningless. Due to the lack of significant botting, not only was one’s own pixels more impactful, but humans tended to mostly collaborate instead of having scripts mindlessly enforcing a template. This ended with a much more creative canvas, as people worked off others ideas and themes, and where there was conflict, a lot of the time a compromise solution was discovered where both pieces of art could co-exist.
The conflict points tended to be political, as it so often happens. For example the Hexbears constantly trying to make the Nato flag into a swastika, or some effectively people rehashing the conflict around the Israel colonization of Palestine in pixel conflict form.
Some other things of interest:
- I mentioned that the Spanish seem to have boarded and overtaken my pirate ship, and someone drew a little vertical ship coming up the stream for reinforcements. ❤️
- Stus and AmongUs everywhere, sometimes in negative space, or only visible in the heatmap. Can you find them all?
- The Void getting absolutely bodied when it tried to be destructive, but being allowed to extend a lot more when they actually played nice with other creations.
- The amount of My Little Pony art is too damn high!
- Pleasantly little national flag jingoism on display!
- A very healthy amount of anarchist art and concepts and symbols. Well done mates! Ⓐ
See you next year!
Third objective completed. The void is touched https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24060656
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CANVAS IS BACK ONLINE 🚨 🎨
performance issues have been solved (unless if sneaky bugs got through)
the event has also been extended by **24 hours** (now ending july 16th @ 4am UTC)
https://canvas.fediverse.events
happy pixel placing!
We've touched piracy. Now help us touch the void! https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24026515
We have a little #pirate ship fighting a kraken on top of a Haidra extremity now and it's so cute! I'm very happy with it!
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23970292?scrollToComments=true
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If anyone wants to improve the look of the logo to be a bit more “pixel perfect” or to add any other enhancements, please go ahead! Just do what improvements you think will be good, then post a new template link so that we can review and if we like it we’ll make it official.
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Suggestion: Don’t overwrite the trees there, just set the haidra colors as a background:
@joachim ...ok?
Haidra, the overarching foss community org behind the AI Horde is now on Canvas 2024! https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23907738
If you appreciate all this project is delivering for you and for #FOSS #AI, please help us display our logo!
You can login using your own fediverse account, or if you don't have one, feel free to register on lemmy.dbzer0.com.
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