[1minusp]

Will be nice to be able to upload a picture/sketch instead of having to sketch something out in the scratchpad. I tend to sketch block diagrams from time to time and hate having to use some tool to draw/drag/align things. Very cool idea though!

[zsikelianos]

Hey there. Scribble Diffusion author here.

If you already have your own images, you can use the Replicate model directly: https://replicate.com/jagilley/controlnet-scribble -- you can upload your image using the Replicate web UI or do it programmatically using the model's HTTP API.

[hgsgm]

How much does an image cost you?

I don't quite understand why some image generators are free and others charge credits, assuming the non-free ones aren't just goldrushing.

Is it just free until oops it gets too popular?

[EvanDotPro]

I run a custom Stable Diffusion bot for a small community that has generated many tens of thousands of images. The community wanted to know what it was costing me, so I dug into it a bit and have a fairly "literal" answer to that question (generally). With the RTX3060 I'm running it on, using a kill-a-wat, I very roughly calculated that generating a 512x640 image consumed ~ +170 watts for about 6 seconds (on top of the baseline power consumption of the PC when idle). This comes out to a little over 1,000 Watt-seconds or 0.000295 kWh per image. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up their current cost per kWh and work out what that comes out to. This is extremely, extremely rough, but helped me wrap my head around the amount of energy we were using to generate all these images and roughly how much of my power bill I had to thank my friends for, haha.

Of course running on rented/hosted GPU's, it's a simpler, but much more expensive story — basically however much you're paying for GPU instances to run Stable Diffusion divided by how many images you generate. :)

[slhomme]

Uploading my own images was one of the reasons I created my own version of this. It works great with kids pictures! This is so fun to see my kids smile on their face every time they see the AI version of their drawings!

Uploaded photos Examples: https://imgur.com/a/jeWgRvH Website: https://crappydrawings.ai

[exodust]

This is great. I presume it's made with Replicate? It looks like it's being updated, as I was getting endless loading indicators a moment ago.

Now trying to decide if this is healthy for kids.... who may lose motivation to ever pursue detailed art and drawing because "AI can do it for me based on rough sketch". But at same time, it may motivate them to make more rough drawings with interesting ideas.

[slhomme]

Yes, it uses Replicate indeed (scribble-diffusion) What I find is that kids (at least mine) are motivated to create even more drawings on their own and then see what it looks like with AI, which gives them more ideas, so they create even more drawings. So, so far, I'd say it has a positive impact. But I'm also pretty curious how this may end up impact on the long term.

[exodust]

Good to hear. Hopefully kids learn the value of original and thoughtful concepts that inform not only AI renderings, but the quality of whatever creative work comes after raw ideas, such as script writing.

I can see storyboarding for film will make use of this. Although having the characters and background remain consistent from scene to scene is something I don't know how can be done, if every submission is a roll of dice.

[ted_bunny]

Get ready to see many images with memes (Loss, Dickbutt) hidden in them. Might be good or bad, depending on your stance on wasted time.

[1minusp]

this is neat! I'll have to try this out.