Wanting some help creating AI art

[gomeHome]

So I was looking through some of the forms here and wondering if I could make a contribution in some way other then the occasional forum or post.
Then I though "oh how about making some art, the Ai stuff seems to be pretty great now-a-days", so I looked around on the site and a few others about what is a good way to go about starting that. And I can't seem to find a good one that doesn't restrict the content I would wanna make.
SO, I decided to just go back to the source and see if I could get some incite from the pros.

If anyone could give this rookie a few pointers as well as a good site/program to use that would be amazing!

Here are a few of my testers that I made before I figured out that the site wouldn't let me made more "exciting" content.

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[ツSisterSexualシ]

Cute lolis, we need more of them!

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afaik you have to download stable defusion on your local machine (PC) with some patch "1111".
Popular AI sites are braindead normies without taste, who won't let generate lolis and cuteness like this, so

 

[Tropical101]

Assuming you have a GPU to locally generate, would suggest youtube for some installation and getting started tutorials as they cover the basics. I think ForgeUI would be good for starting (or Automatic1111), and later moving to ComfyUI for more control.

 

[Gazon731]

All AI have built-in censorship nowdays. I literally can't generate kitten in nazi uniform from any AI package.

 

[Sinaster]

Is almost like these developers don't trust us with the keys haha.

 

[MTelly]

So I was looking through some of the forms here and wondering if I could make a contribution in some way other then the occasional forum or post.
Then I though "oh how about making some art, the Ai stuff seems to be pretty great now-a-days", so I looked around on the site and a few others about what is a good way to go about starting that. And I can't seem to find a good one that doesn't restrict the content I would wanna make.
SO, I decided to just go back to the source and see if I could get some incite from the pros.

If anyone could give this rookie a few pointers as well as a good site/program to use that would be amazing!

Here are a few of my testers that I made before I figured out that the site wouldn't let me made more "exciting" content.

According to my experience, there're two ways you can follow in order to create the images you want:

1. THE HARD WAY (recommended if you are gonna generate images frequently).
Using a local installation of Stable Diffusion on your computer, assuming you have a more or less decent graphics card.

+ You have more control on the final image
+ You are able to modify in different ways the output images
- Requires much more time
- Requires more knowledge
- Requires a lot of storage and smart use of it

2. THE EASY WAY (recommended if the use is ocasional and don't wanna spend your precious time).
Using an online image generator. Here some i know:

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(unlimited)

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(requires creating an user. 100 daily credits=50-60 images. more versatile)
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+easy use
+fast
+storage free
- less control over the final image

Even going the second way i recommend you study a little bit the use of tags and prompting. If you are going through anime style i suggest you to visit some booru sites like .
Also , a site where you can download models and extensions for SD, there's a lot of images you can learn about their prompting (or simply copy if you are too lazy).

 

[Montimer]

Cute lolis, we need more of them!

afaik you have to download stable defusion on your local machine (PC) with some patch "1111".
Popular AI sites are braindead normies without taste, who won't let generate lolis and cuteness like this, so

True but at the same time, there are some sites which do in fact allow lolis if you actually put in correct tags and select proper LORAs.
Namely tensor.art which has a very generous amount of generations for free.

 

[gomeHome]

Thanks guys for all the advise, helped a lot and I've been making some progress! Sadly not a member yet so I cant post my more explicit stuff, but here are a few of the others!

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[tyktamsyl]

If you have a good computer, A1111 is good. Otherwise i don’t know anything besides paid options (and even those arent great).

 

[lcflex]

The best way to do it is locally via Stable Diffusion. There are many different UIs to choose from, Fooocus seems to be a popular choice for beginners (

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). You don't need powerful hardware to be capable of doing it either. CPU rendering is possible but extraordinarily slow; GPU is better. You'll need an nVidia 900 series or newer (AMD is possible, but I don't know the minimum required, so are M1 or newer Macs), with at least 4GB VRAM. Faster GPU = faster renders, more VRAM = higher resolution/multiple renders in parallel.

I got started on a laptop with a GTX 960. It was slow as fuck, but it worked.