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20th September 2022 - Link Blog

I Resurrected "Ugly Sonic" with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion (via) “I trained an Ugly Sonic object concept on 5 image crops from the movie trailer, with 6,000 steps [...] (on a T4 GPU, this took about 1.5 hours and cost about $0.21 on a GCP Spot instance)”

Posted 20th September 2022 at 3:35 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 20th September 2022.

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