Why is it not recognising celebrity/famous names when trying to input them into the prompt box?..I did type in “Taylor Swift” yesterday (simply because she’s so well known) & after waiting an age got something resembling her,but just tried “River Phoenix” and got firstly a woman then an actual phoenix…is this because the whole thing has started from scratch?

  • zmkart@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    “Months” though!!!..how is this an improvement?..seems like we’ve gone so far backwards.

    • GrumblePuss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      To use a loose analogy, that’s like getting a new (much better) car and calling it worse than the previous one because the fuel tank hasn’t been filled with gas yet.

      Training is the bread and butter that makes an image generator work. It is the reference data that it pulls from to create images. Without it, there is no “fuel” for the engine to run, so the results will be sub-optimal.

      And, again, training is an extremely GPU intensive process. The fact the dev is able to run the training data and still support image gen at a usable level is pure wizardry.

      • zmkart@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        Ok,but what is the reason for this update if it’s putting us all back who knows how many months…all seems a bit daft to say the least.

        • GrumblePuss@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Perhaps my analogy wasn’t very good?

          Flux is a dramatically better image gen model. Most consider it better than SDXL, yet still lightweight enough (with a bunch of optimization) to run on the limited resources the dev can afford. When the training is complete, this model will be far more capable then the old one ever was, but the training needs to finish for it to get better.

          I’m sorry you are having trouble with this, but a large number of people have complained about the quality of the old model, yet there is no way to fix those issues without upgrading the model. Now that the old model is being replaced, all many people can do is complain, rather than be thankful that the dev is working hard to give us a better model.

          • zmkart@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            11·
            1 month ago

            Fair enough - I hate to complain but for me the site was perfect as it was - if in 6 months it’s as good as it was then great - but it’s a long time to wait though to get back to where we were!