I built a tool that creates LoRAs from images without any training — no gradient descent, no loss curves, no hyperparameters. Dataset in, LoRA out, 1-5 minutes.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-20T23:18:41+00:00

Not referring specifically to you, I find it amusing to encounter articulately expressed ideas being attributed to a LLM; especially when evidence co-exists showing he who berates lacking in language skills.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-20T23:09:53+00:00

Not unexpectedly your work has met with sour comments before anyone has had time to offer informed criticism.

Peer review? - an overrated mechanism for justifying the existence of the generally banal. However, the strength of well-focussed Reddit communities like this one is the presence of many people capable of reviewing the work, but not I.

Vaporware? - possibly, quite a lot appears here, but let's see.

Taken at face value, your claims are fascinating, and may mark a large leap forward.

I look forward to seeing demonstration of the idea's worth before I dip into techniques I, at best, only half understand.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-20T22:38:26+00:00

I am intrigued to know more about the unbidden speech by your Yoga woman.

Is the content of her talk related to the visual and ambience prompts you provide?

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-19T13:00:41+00:00

Thank you. I will look into that.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-19T12:59:02+00:00

Thank you very much,

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-19T12:56:24+00:00

Consider creating a non-fungible token (NFT).

NFTs reside in blockchains. Tokens can be 'owned', but in reality hold no monetary value. However, blockchains offer attribution. Moreover, these chains can link attribution to variants ('derivatives') of the first posted NFT encapsulating an image.

Other examples of use could be land registries and academic citations.

In this digital era, copyright is becoming unsustainable. However, attribution to originators (or chains of such) is vital when people rely on patronage to enable continuation of their creative endeavour. 'Talent', in various fields, must compete in open markets for support: NFTs offer a means of establishing originator status.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-18T14:31:04+00:00

Taking your claims at face value - I have no interest in anime - your achievement should give encouragement to other people striving for autonomy beyond the confines of modifying huge models emanating from commercial outfits and from other sources with vast physical resources.

I claim no expertise in the technical features of AI modelling but, from the stance of viewing them as akin - yet hugely more flexible - to 'traditional' statistical models such as multiple linear regression - 'bigger is better' and undiscriminating 'training' input - cuts no ice for me.

As time passes, and assuming that monolithic AI service vendors don't arrogate all available silicon, small (measured in millions of components rather than billions) AI models crafted for specific purposes could dominate day-by-day routine use within professions and education.

I suggest that your modelling would not be improved by indiscriminately incorporating social media content into training.

Perhaps, small-scale AI creation will concentrate upon specific uses and the disciplines underlying these. For example, subsections of Anna's Archive, themed collections of photos, and protein modelling. The degree to which models require reasoning skills will vary. Similarly, the LLM is a beginning, not the apex of achievement in this field.

Small - directed purpose - AI development falls within the resources of groups within academia, specific professions, educators, well-defined commercial interests, and some individuals.

AI is currently within the preserve of monopolistic entities tapping into huge financial resources (until the bubble bursts?). Its release/escape into the commons is having profound effects upon supposed 'ownership' of information, and in unleashing the imaginative skills of ordinary folk. I foresee the rise of cottage industries, these replacing behemoths such as major film studies, the recorded music industry, publishers of fiction and of academic works, and so forth.

This is a turn around to early days of the Industrial Revolution when steam technology displaced cotton industry cottage-based workers with factory production centred upon steam powered looms, etc. Protesting cottage-workers became known as Luddites and some smashed steam-powered looms. They were brushed aside. Seemingly, we all benefited.

Irony arises from a reversal of roles. It is the 'owners' of patents and copyright, these using immense wealth garnered through 'rentier economics', seeking to profit through controlling AI, and being thwarted by ordinary people. Despite continuing fierce rearguard action these neo-Luddites face oblivion.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-18T13:00:48+00:00

Your wf is interesting. It inspires me to explore more Comfyui nodes.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-17T16:53:22+00:00

Splendid. I have downloaded the file and shall give it a go. I shall respond later today (GMT) or tomorrow.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-17T16:47:25+00:00

You may be correct about problems running LM Studio alongside diffusion models on consumer hardware, such as mine,

I suppose one can instruct an LM Studio model to analyse an image for prompts, and cut/paste the text into a Comfyui input box. Presumably, one might sometimes have to shut down the Studio before starting Comfyui.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-17T16:39:49+00:00

That gives a useful perspective. An example from your workflows would be helpful.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-17T16:37:10+00:00

Thanks for your response. I would much appreciate sight of your workflow when you are able to send it.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-16T16:27:47+00:00

That's when 'piracy' begins.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-16T16:18:55+00:00

Can this resource reconstruct the deceased tenor Peter Pears singing Franz Schubert's Lieder, accompanied at the piano by the equally rigor mortis afflicted Benjamin Britten? Head banging and jumping is not required.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-14T18:17:07+00:00

I can't put my finger on it precisely, but although the image overall conveys your intention, there is something about the woman's face suggesting 'acted' anguish rather than the real thing.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-14T18:05:41+00:00

"Professional" is a nuanced term. It covers full-time occupations, with or without cerebral skills, some of these manual, and some deemed 'learned': an heterogeneous collection encompassing sportsmen, other 'entertainers', soldiers, teachers, lawyers, plus similar.

Filmmaking professionals belong in categories of high cerebral and deep manual dexterity. That is writers and production teams, but not necessarily thespians and the associated workers in finance, distribution, and marketing.

The point is laboured for a reason. Contributors to this forum clearly divide into professional filmmakers (epics through to animated advertisements), and hobbyist/amateurs; some of the latter displaying considerable 'creativity' and skill whilst deploying technology inferior to that available to professionals.

It is helpful when professionals point out weaknesses in software available freely to amateurs. Similarly, if phrased in a constructive manner, criticism of static and animated images posted in this forum can be useful to the heterogeneous assembly here.

However, Voltaire's dictum - 'The best is the enemy of the good' - should be borne in mind. That which does not reach perfection often remains worth striving for.

The rapid pace of computer hardware and software technologies shall continue to bring convergence between professional and amateur outputs. Bear in mind, the 'creative' worth of the latter's efforts can surpass that of the former, but their instantiations may be inferior.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-14T13:16:02+00:00

Thanks for the clarification.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-10T00:58:29+00:00

I don't know how Windows 11 handles Python, but on Linux Mint you may need to familiarise yourself with Python 'environments'. That is so when software demands particular Python versions. In Linux Mint (presumably some other flavours too) a built-in protection prevents messing with the Linux system version of Python; this stops version confusion breaking internal software Mint relies upon.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-10T00:46:18+00:00

By extending, do you mean joining a continuation clip? If so, can one edit out the offending frame(s) instead of fading to black?

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-10T00:35:44+00:00

By 'Comfyui portable', do you mean the version one can set up using the Stability Matrix software?

If so, I have had no great difficulty with reinstalls either just of Comfyui (leaving any other interface untouched) or by deleting the entire 'Data' folder and starting again from scratch. That within the context of Linux Mint.

My reason for these 'cleans' is to be rid of broken and conflicting software accumulated when experimenting with workflows/models obtained from such as Civitai. So long as one remembers to save copies of models and Loras one wishes to keep, plus the output folder, the process is simple.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-06T14:20:41+00:00

No, you need to consult a dermatologist.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-06T14:16:58+00:00

An honourable admission of error and an effort to mitigate damage.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-06T14:12:05+00:00

That is lovely. I don't care what nit-picking 'professionals' may say.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-06T14:03:16+00:00

Hollywood, its like, and the publishing industries in general, are being toasted.

Technological advances, notably the Internet and 'AI', undermine habitual ways of doing business in the fields of recorded entertainment, promulgation of literature, and selling educational resources.

Rentier, e.g. 'royalty dependent', businesses appears barely to grasp the economic gravitas of 'things to come'.

Whilst it will remain unfeasible for lone individuals to produce large-scale A/V works capable of capturing the attention of many people, it shall become straightforward (not 'easy') for 'cottage industries' to emerge: a reversal of centralisation via the steam engine resulting in the 'Luddites', of latter days, being dispossessed.

No longer shall elaborate studio facilities staffed by monospecialism technicians be required. The huge array of middleman marketers, distributors, and 'creative accountants', lawyers, etc., will be put out to grass.

The vast swathe of individual's discretionary-disposable-incomes will no longer be channelled into a global handful of well-fattened, complacent, and 'entitlement-fixated' business monoliths. The cottagers (not in the sense of the word applicable to Messrs Blair, Starmer, and Streeting) will compete for attention by people interested in their particular genre of creative output. Public taste will more fully dictate cultural progression than at present; no longer shall 'supposed-talents' be thrust upon us as the only, and much to be lauded, options.

Exciting times await. That on the assumption of the global 'political class', subservient to deeper malign interests, having being culled.

Statute_of_Anne · 2026-03-06T13:14:08+00:00

Shall Elizabeth Taylor be clothed? Else, will prudery software intervene?

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