[HN Gopher] Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion
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Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion
Hi HN, this is an early version of what we're imagining as a truly
functional stock photo platform using Stable Diffusion. We're
doing our best to hide the customization prompts on the back end so
users are able to quickly search for pre-existing generated photos,
or create new ones that would ideally work as well. If we keep
going with it, in future versions we'd like to add voting, better
tags, and more varied prompts, or maybe whatever you recommend!
Author : jarrenae
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-09-30 17:45 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ghostlystock.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ghostlystock.com)
| wheresmycraisin wrote:
| Omg I cannot wait for human faces to become non-freaky with this
| technology. People pay real money to sites like Getty or Adobe
| (the former of which is owned by a corp that you may or may not
| find politically compatible with your beliefs) to fill their
| landing pages. And for specific categories, for example "happy
| asian couple", there's only a few models to choose from so it
| becomes repetitive fast.
| jarrenae wrote:
| I can't wait either. We're going to add follow-up solutions to
| upres, expand, and improve facial features. Additionally, we're
| aiming to improve search terminology on the back end to start
| providing more relevant results for exactly those sorts of
| searches.
| CameronBanga wrote:
| Having a button in the search bar that's a blue circle that says
| Photo, etc, and then not having it start the generation process
| when clicked feels odd to me. Took me about 30 seconds to realize
| I had to hit the enter key. Would likely feel weirder on mobile.
| jarrenae wrote:
| Agreed. Mobile we have an added "Search" button appear, but
| that's on my list of improvements to make.
| ericmcer wrote:
| Whoa this is cool and I would def used a more refined version of
| it. The images with people are a little bit... freaky but objects
| and animals look fine.
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| I wonder if this exists inside of Squarespace or Wordpress. I
| imagine the ability to generate quality license free stock photos
| would be a huge selling point for them.
| jarrenae wrote:
| We're going to add voting to help empower users to sort between
| better/worse summoned images. And an API tool for devs to
| leverage is planned as well.
| nostromo wrote:
| Some of these are a bit nightmarish!
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| I love it. But whoever entered "spider salad" and "cockroach
| salad" previously so it would show up when I searched for "salad"
| -- I'm mad at you.
| jarrenae wrote:
| In V2 we're planning to add a voting system and additional
| filtering/tagging to solve for a lot of these
| unusual/nightmareish summoned images.
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| I for one am sorry for your cockroach salad jump-scare, but of
| course, you know summoning from beyond is tricky business.
| roganp wrote:
| Oh yes. Some are very creepy / hilarious. Awesome just the
| same.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Not sure I understand how to use this. I searched for "monkey on
| car" and these are the "categories" I get:
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| "a dead monkey", "a monkey dancing", "a dead monkey" (again), "a
| ca"
| jarrenae wrote:
| Also we'll have to add reporting for specific search terms. We
| do have a NSFW filter on by default, but there are often things
| that skirt around the rules while are hard to filter for.
| roganp wrote:
| They are offering you a previously generated image. Need to
| click the button at bottom of page to get an original rendering
| "from beyond"
| jarrenae wrote:
| Exactly. We'll improve button location in another iteration.
| switchstance wrote:
| I am so thankful we got out of the stock business when we did.
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| AI generated photos, videos, music and animations are here, and I
| believe it's only a matter of time before they replace a large
| percentage of the stock websites/companies.
| jarrenae wrote:
| That's sort of the reason we started building this. I think
| there will absolutely always be room for paid, high quality
| stock photos, but "content" at the speed of thought is here,
| and I'm excited to see how the space evolves.
| WalterBright wrote:
| "D-Man programming" didn't turn up anything interesting, though
| images.google.com got it right :D
| jarrenae wrote:
| For more vague terms, this probably won't do too well for a
| while, but this definitely isn't going to "replace" anything
| else completely in the near future. It's really intended to be
| a new tool to add to the toolbox.
| gus_massa wrote:
| They take too long to generate, but there is no clear indication
| of that. You should add a spinning mouse or other thing that
| shows that the server is working. (A robot paining a canvas would
| be nice, but you need someone that can make nice drawings. A
| hourglass or a spinning circle are good enough.)
| knicholes wrote:
| Dall-E 2 does something great: Show prompts and examples of
| images that those prompts generate. This educates your consumer
| to be able to get more of what they want while they wait. It
| kind of tickles the desire for mastery.
| jarrenae wrote:
| Agreed. That's already one of the things I have on the list for
| v2, "make image summoning more obvious/loading" and also we'll
| improve the button location for "Summoning new images" because
| it's likely that users won't want to scroll to the bottom just
| to generate new images.
| gus_massa wrote:
| I'd make the working indicator a top priority. It's not so
| difficult to add, but it makes the UI much better.
| jarrenae wrote:
| You're absolutely right. We'll likely have a fix rolled out
| for this and a few other things on Monday.
| LanternLight83 wrote:
| Summoning, I like that~
| jarrenae wrote:
| Seances aren't easy things to get working with ones and
| zeros.
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