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Fair but I'd point out I also didn't make the algorithm that changes photos. I'm wrapping a bunch of algorithms that other people made in a way that makes them easy to use.

It's not just that GUI's are hard, it's that the "customer" base will inevitably be much less technical and I'd receive a lot more difficult to resolve bug reports. So no-gui is also a way of staying focused on more interesting parts of the project.

would it be possible to use this tool to make automatic mask for editing in something like GIMP

probably but GIMP plugins are not something I've looked into

REPL

already done. just type `aimg` and you're good to go

GUI

GUIs add a lot of complexity. Can your file manager do thumbnails and quick previews?

This is itself it's own finetuned version of SD so now it won't work with alternative versions. img2img works by just running normal stable diffusion img2img on a noised starting image. As such it destroys information at all parts of the image equally. This new model uses attention mechanisms to decide which parts of the image are important to modify. It can leave parts of the image untouched while making drastic changes to other parts.

I'm not aware of any pre-existing open-source model that selectively edits images (leaving some parts untouched) based on instructions. This new method is much better than the image2image that shipped with the original stable diffusion. I'm looking at the InvokeAI docs right now and don't see anything like this feature. We previously had smart-masks, but InstructPix2Pix mostly does away with the need for those as well.

If I am mistaken please provide links to these prior features.

Been doing a lot with prompts lately. What people are calling "prompt engineering" I'd call "knowing what to even ask for and also asking for it in a clear manner". That was a valuable skill before computers and will continue to be one as AI progresses.

I've been pretty disappointed to introduce ChatGPT to people in jobs where it would be a game changer and they just don't know what to do with it. They ask it for not-useful things or useful things in a non-productive way. "here is some ad copy I wrote, write it better". Whether you're instructing a human, chatgpt, or AI god... that's just too vague of instructions.