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Congrats Burkay - the model is very impressive. One area I’d like to see improved in a flux v2 is knowledge of artist styles. Flux cannot respond to requests asking for paintings in the style of David Hockney, Norman Rockwell, Edgar Degas, — it seems to have no fine art training at all.

I’d bet that fine art training would further improve the compositional skills of the model, plus it would open up a range of uses that are (to me at least) a bit more interesting than just illustrations.



It's "just" another diffusion model, although a very good one. Those people are probably in there even if its text encoder doesn't know about them. So you can find them with textual inversion.


>Flux cannot respond to requests asking for paintings in the style of David Hockney, Norman Rockwell

Does it respond to any names? I noticed SD3 removed all names to prevent recreating famous people but as a side effect lost the very powerful ability to infer styles from artist names too.


Have those artists given permission for their styles to be slurped up into a model?


Florentine art schools would like a word - they’ve been teaching painters by having them copy masters since the 16th century.


Give me a sec, I will contact Edgar Degas with my telegraph.


Truly an API call I would pay for




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