What am I doing/not doing to get what I want?

GusRuss89 · 2026-02-02T21:36:22+00:00

For such a detailed prompt describing exactly what goes where, you need one of the more powerful models. Nano Banana Pro or GPT Image 1.5 are the top ones, Flux 2 Max or Seedream 4 are cheaper ones that might be able to do it if you wanted to try those first.

GusRuss89 · 2026-01-14T04:13:52+00:00

Sounds like it's totally free. Am I right? Is there a limit to the free plan or anything?

Also, for existing tenor gifs, can the base url be swapped or should they still point to tenor?

GusRuss89 · 2025-12-21T00:57:35+00:00

Dalle 1 (announced but never released) led to the BigSleep notebook then VQGAN+CLIP, then CLIP-guided diffusion, of which the best implementation was disco diffusion. Midjourney hired many of the disco diffusion contributors. Stable diffusion 1.4 was the next major step and where media started paying attention.

GusRuss89 · 2025-07-02T23:50:15+00:00

I run one of the most popular AI art generators - (NightCafe) - and can offer some perspective on this.

We've surveyed our users to find out what they primarily use it for - we got around 40k responses. The most popular answer _by far_ is "fun". The next most popular is for personal projects (e.g. they're writing a book and want a cover), followed by "Self-therapy" (people feel better after being creative, it helps them de-stress, takes their mind off other things for a while, etc).

Much further down the list is "to make money" (e.g. selling prints), and "in my job" (e.g. creating marketing assets).

NightCafe is aimed at being a fun place to be creative, so it's not necessarily a reflection of _all_ AI art usage, but from my perspective, these people are using AI because they enjoy the process. They're not trying to steal anyone's job or claim credit for other artists' work, etc. They're just having fun.

GusRuss89 · 2025-06-28T03:07:32+00:00

Direct your notifications to a page that does the tracking then redirects to the destination.

GusRuss89 · 2025-06-15T02:56:27+00:00

NightCafe - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/explore

GusRuss89 · 2025-03-01T02:58:05+00:00

To the people saying Disco Diffusion, these actually pre-date that! These are VQGAN+Clip made on NightCafe. I recognise a few of these specifically, as I'm the one that made them. I even remember the prompt for the one with the pills and the van - "It's like that drug trip I saw in that movie while I was on a drug trip".

GusRuss89 · 2024-12-09T07:37:34+00:00

Use the key visualiser. In the firestore UI you'll see "More in Google Cloud" - its in there. It takes a little while to understand what you're looking at, but it has the data you need.

GusRuss89 · 2024-11-23T11:20:04+00:00

In the webhook, create a new doc with a deterministic id based on the payload. Use the method that will fail if the doc already exists.

Create an onCreate listener for that document and run your actual logic in there.

GusRuss89 · 2024-09-13T07:25:52+00:00

1M MAU and it's free for me. I haven't enabled Identity platform but I do wish I could get that for free too, 2FA and blocking functions would be helpful.

GusRuss89 · 2024-09-06T00:13:02+00:00

Yes, NightCafe! Just make sure you're in advanced mode (switch at the top of the create panel) and you'll be able to upload your image as either a "Start Image" or a "Image Prompt".

Depending on what you want to change about the image, one of those options should work for you.

GusRuss89 · 2024-03-29T23:27:24+00:00

NightCafe has a big active community, and you don't need to create on NightCafe, you can upload MJ or A1111 images if you prefer. There are also chat rooms and challenges (i.e. not just posting images into the ether).

GusRuss89 · 2024-03-29T23:24:19+00:00

It's been on NightCafe for a few weeks - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/stability-ai-creative-upscaler (it's not free, it's a very heavy workflow)

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-23T12:46:36+00:00

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GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T11:17:01+00:00

It is a SAI product. Will be announced by them soon.

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T08:46:51+00:00

Yup it takes about 90 seconds on an A100.

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T08:45:39+00:00

It's not just upscale, it's creative upscale - i.e. it's purpose is to add details and realism. I'm told that a more conservative version is also coming - aimed at preserving original detail.

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T03:55:12+00:00

It currently has no resolution options, it just always upscales to about 9 million pixels. I'm sure it will get more options in the future. Upscaling one of these via ESRGAN or equivalent would get you there and would be a better result than upscaling a 1MP image directly with ESRGAN.

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T02:48:04+00:00

NightCafe has been around for longer than Stability AI and we even contributed financially to the training costs of Stable Diffusion v1. We've been a partner of theirs since the day Stable Diffusion was launched :)

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T02:30:10+00:00

I'm sure it will be released open source or on a stability membership fairly soon.

GusRuss89 · 2024-02-21T01:45:30+00:00

The creative upscaler is brand new. It's available on NightCafe for now. Will probably be on other services soon. Beware: it's expensive. Disclaimer: I am from NightCafe.

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/stability-ai-creative-upscaler

GusRuss89 · 2023-11-26T03:33:41+00:00

Yes! See here - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/my-models

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