db0 apparently has a bot, @aihorde@lemmy.db0.com, linked up to AI Horde, which will render images using various LLM models in response to comments.

All using it requires is, in a comment, writing the text:

@aihorde@lemmy.db0.com draw for me <prompt text>

It’s apparently been active for years, but somehow, I’d been unaware of it until now, when db0 happened to trigger it in a thread on !imageai@sh.itjust.work where we were creating images to represent usernames. It looks like nobody’s been aware of it, and it’s gotten very little use.

It apparently supports multiple models (including Pony, which is trained on and can render furry art, and Flux, which does pretty well with ordinary, English-language descriptions). It looks like the default is Flux.

Note that according to the FAQ, it will try to block (and will do a 1-day tempban on users for) NSFW content.

I’m going to try out a few prompts here and maybe mention this somewhere higher-profile, because this is really cool — it lets users pseudononymously generate images on the Threadiverse without needing to use a commercial service or having their own hardware.

Bot FAQ:

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/cbotart/

AI Horde style list (these can be accessed by adding style: <stylename> to the end of a prompt). Some of these are clearly different models whose names I recognize, and I’m pretty sure that some are just adding some extra text to the prompt.

https://github.com/amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-Previews/blob/main/previews.md

While Lemmy doesn’t natively provide the ability to follow a user, it posts what it generates to !botart@lemmy.dbzer0.com, so you can subscribe and watch generation if you want.

  • talOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Some time back, I rendered some landscape paintings in the style of Casilear. I don’t know whether the bot can do different-resolution images — I did those at 2560x1440, whereas the bot is using 1024x1024 in what I’ve seen, and I don’t see a reference in a quick search of the docs to a way to change that. I was also using a model, realmixXL_v15, derived from Stable Diffusion XL but not itself Stable Diffusion, and it doesn’t look like AI Horde has that model available. So I don’t know how well this will work. But let’s see what happens if we ask it to regenerate such an image using SDXL:

    @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me Scotts Bluff, by John William Casilear style: sdxl

      • talOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Great! Okay, those have very low saturation, look almost monochrome. The bot apparently supports use of a negative prompt — this is where one specifies keywords that one wants excluded rather included in an image — if you append them after three pound signs in a row. Flux doesn’t support negative prompts, but Stable Diffusion does. Let’s see if we can get some color by making use of that functionality:

        @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me Scotts Bluff, by John William Casilear###monochrome, desaturated style: sdxl