Intro
Usually, I am making images by ChatGPT.
But, I am using the free plan, so I can make only 3 images at once.
I want to make images unlimited for free and fast.
How can I make this dream come true?🤔
I Googled carefully and found that FastSD CPU might be the answer.
What is FastSD CPU
FastSD CPU is a faster version of Stable Diffusion on CPU.
https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu
Normally, without GPU it is soooo slow generating images locally.🐢
However, Based on Latent Consistency Models and Adversarial Diffusion Distillation, FastSD CPU can generate images faster than the normal models.
Also, it has OpenVINO support to generate images even faster locally.💨
How to use FastSD CPU
1️⃣ Install Python 3.10 or 3.11.
2️⃣ Clone or download the repo.
https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu
3️⃣ Run start.bat (GUI) or start-webui.bat (Web UI).
4️⃣ You are ready for FastSD CPU!🚀
Output of FastSD CPU
First, I inputted ”people” and pressed the generate button.
Hooray! I succeeded making a horror image.🤣
Next, I inputted ”dog” and pressed the generate button.
Ta-da! I succeeded making a nightmare image.🤣
How to improve the images
When using GUI, you can set the FastSD CPU at setting tab.
When I selected LCM-dreamshaper-v7-openvino for the model, and increased Number of inference steps from 1 to 4, images got quite better.
Steps is a number of reducing the times of noise.
When selecting FLUX.1-schnell-openvino-int4 for the model, quality became even better, but generating time got longer.
Generation time and PC Spec
I was using a normal office PC (CPU: Core i7, Memory: 16GB) and doesn't have a NVIDIA GPU.
It took about 20 seconds using LCM-dreamshaper-v7-openvino for 4 steps.
And, it took about 10 minutes using FLUX.1-schnell-openvino-int4 for 4 steps.
When using these models for the first time, it takes more time, because we need to download and compile the model.
Outro
Using FastSD CPU, we can generate images for free and fast even on a PC with no GPU.
I will write another post, if I know further about image generative AI.
Thank you for reading.
Happy AI image generating !🎨
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