Hacklahoma AI Image Workshop (Fall 2023)

Launching a Stable Diffusion Instance on Cloud

Go to Google Cloud (or any other cloud provider), and open console. Trial $300 Google Cloud credits.

Since Google Cloud seems to be very busy, I will use RunPod in my demo today.

Create a VM with a GPU, at least 15GB RAM, and 30GB disk. Connect to SSH, install git, and clone this Automatic1111 (A1111) repository.

cd in to the cloned directory and run:

$ nano webui-user.sh

Add the following to COMMANDLINE_ARGS

--device-id=0 --no-half-vae --xformers --share

and exit nano with Ctrl+X saving the changes.

Now we are ready to launch Stable Diffusion with:

bash ./webui-user.sh

You should see a link like https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gradio.live after the webui finishes launching. Warning, do NOT share the public link, others can abuse you instance and increase your bill.

text2img

Background: text2img can be thought of as generating visual content based on textual descriptions. Popular models include DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.

ControlNet (+ Stable Diffusion)

Install extension for A1111: sd-webui-controlnet