Long Stable Diffusion: Long-form text to images

e.g. story -> Stable Diffusion -> illustrations

Right now, Stable Diffusion can only take in a short prompt. What if you want to illustrate a full story? Cue Long Stable Diffusion, a pipeline of generative models to do just that with just a bash script!

Steps

1. Start with long-form text that you want accompanying images for, e.g. a story to illustrate.
2. Ask GPT-3 for several illustration ideas for beginning, middle, end, via the OpenAI API.
3. "Translate" the ideas from English to "prompt-English", e.g. add suffixes like trending on art station for better results.
4. The "prompt-English" prompts are put through Stable Diffusion to generate the images.
5. All the images and prompts are dumped into a .docx, for easy copy-pasting.

Purpose

I made this to automate my self, ie. prompt AI for illustrations to accompany AI-generated stories, for the Stories by AI podcast. Come check us out! And please suggest ways to improve—comments and pull requests are always welcome :)

This was also just a weekend hackathon project to reward myself for doing a lot of work the past couple of months, and for feeling guilty about not using my wonderful and beautiful Titan RTXs to their full potential.

Run

This bash script runs what you need. It assumes 2 GPUs with 24GB memory each. See the note above, under Steps, to change this assumption for your compute needs. I had too much fun with multiprocessing and making it faster. bash run_longsd.sh <name_of_txtfile_in_texts_dir>

What you need OK, before you run it like that.

• Install the requirements
• Make sure you set your OpenAI API key, e.g. in terminal export OPENAI_TOKEN=<your_token>
• Then, put your favorite story or article in a .txt file in the texts/ folder

Files and folders

• run_longsd.sh: This is the main entry script into the program to parallelize across GPUs easily.

• longsd.py: Where most of the magic happens: getting image prompts from GPT-3, making images from those prompts (using stable diffusion, multithreading), saving all those and also dumping those images and prompts to a docx file. This is what run_longsd.sh calls.

• sd.py: Just runs stable diffusion if you want to use it by itself (I do). longsd.py calls it.

• dump_docx.py: Just dumps image prompts and images into a single docx for a particular text. Again, it's useful if you want to use it by itself on the saved images and prompts. I do, because I'm actually overwriting the file when multiprocessing and sometimes will just use this as a postprocessing step. Yes, you can join those and change that but I don't really care, since sometimes my GPUs misbehave and I'll need to rerun it anyways.

• texts/: Folder to put your texts in, as a .txt file.

• image_prompts/: Generated image prompts by GPT-3 based on your text.

• images: Generated images by Stable Diffusion based on GPT-3's image prompts.

• docx/: Microsoft Word document for a text with images and their prompts all in one.

• clean_lexica.py: Preprocessing step for Stable Diffusion prompts from Lexica - clean up the prompts and put them into a single file.

• effective_prompts_fs.txt: Effective "prompt-English" to use for few-shot translation from English GPT-3 prompts to prompt-English (1884 tokens).

Multi-processing Multi-GPU Note

Multi-processing is optimized for 2 Titan RTXs, with 24GB RAM each. Changing the number of GPUs to parallelize on is a simple edit in run_longsd.sh: just copy the first line and change CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES to the appropriate GPU id.

Changing the number of processes for each GPU is an argument that can be passed in through run_longsd.sh as -n <num_processes_per_gpu> for each run. This is an int used in longsd.py. I've found that my GPUs can handle 3, but are happier with 2.

TODOs

• Pipeline of asking GPT3 for image prompts
• Image prompts to stable diffusion
• Multiprocessing to max out a single GPU
• GPU multiprocessing stable diffusion
• Docx dump of images and image prompts
• Translation layer between English prompt and "prompt English" (lexica)
• Walkthrough video of code
• Flesh out readme
• Open source

Future

• Translation from English to 'prompt English' can be improved with: finetuned model with several million data samples (instead of 36)