Hacker News with Generative AI: Image Generation

Mann-E, breakthrough image generation platform with crypto payments (mann-e.com)
Our AI-powered platform helps you create stunning, unique images in seconds. Whether you're an artist, designer, or just looking to explore your creativity, we've got you covered.
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation (sagipolaczek.github.io)
NeuralSVG generates vector graphics from text prompts with ordered and editable shapes.
How to generate OpenGraph images with Astro and Satori (skyfall.dev)
Generating OpenGraph images for your Astro site is an easy way to increase click-through rates and make link previews more appealing. Here's how to set them up!
1.58-Bit Flux (chenglin-yang.github.io)
We present 1.58-bit FLUX, the first successful approach to quantizing the state-of-the-art text-to-image generation model, FLUX.1-dev, using 1.58-bit weights (i.e., values in {-1, 0, +1}) while maintaining comparable performance for generating 1024 x 1024 images.
NYT Quiz: Which Parts of These Images Are A.I.-Generated? (nytimes.com)
Artificial intelligence tools can fabricate entirely new images and videos. But they can now also make much smaller tweaks by inserting A.I. elements into genuine photographs, further blurring the line between what’s real and what’s fake.
ByteDance INFP: The AI That Brings Images to Life (pdftranslate.ai)
Bytedance has introduced INFP, a powerful AI that can turn any single image into a lively character that can talk, sing, and interact with its surroundings.
AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware (surrey.ac.uk)
A groundbreaking AI model that creates images as the user types, using only modest and affordable hardware, has been announced by the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI) at the University of Surrey.
Elon Musk's X launches image generator Aurora (techcrunch.com)
X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant. However, after going live for a few hours on Saturday, the product seemed to disappear for some users.
Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs (techmeme.com)
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself
X gains a new image generator, Aurora (techcrunch.com)
X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant. However, after going live for a few hours on Saturday, the product seemed to disappear for some users.
Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI (cloud.google.com)
Generative AI is leading to real business growth and transformation. Among enterprise companies with gen AI in production, 86% report an increase in revenue1, with an estimated 6% growth. That’s why Google is investing in its AI technology with new models like Veo, our most advanced video generation model, and Imagen 3, our highest quality image generation model.
Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images (news.utexas.edu)
AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio recordings into street-view images.
FLUX.1 Tools (blackforestlabs.ai)
Today, we are excited to release FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models designed to add control and steerability to our base text-to-image model FLUX.1, enabling the modification and re-creation of real and generated images.
Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator (puzzlip.com)
Welcome to Puzzlip, it's a simple, relaxing, puzzle generator.
Generating high-quality thumbnails from videos (apple.com)
FLUX1.1 [Pro] Ultra and Raw Modes (blackforestlabs.ai)
Today, we are adding new high-resolution capabilities to FLUX1.1 [pro], extending its functionality to support 4x higher image resolutions (up to 4MP) while maintaining an impressive generation time of only 10 seconds per sample.
Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023) (thomascountz.com)
Inspired by biological systems, evolutionary algorithms model the patterns of multi-generational evolution in order to unearth unique ideas. They work by generating a vast number of potential solutions to a particular problem and then pitting them against each other in a process akin natural selection: only the fittest survive. In this way, evolutionary algorithms are able to navigate large ambiguous search spaces in order to find solutions to problems that may be difficult or inefficient to solve using other methods.
Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals (aiomnigen.com)
Use OmniGen to create images with text prompts, image references, and subject-driven generation.
Get any AI to generate an image of a glass of wine that is full to the brim (reddit.com)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get any AI to generate an image of a glass of wine that is full to the brim.
StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 (tomsguide.com)
Stable Diffusion 3.5 (stability.ai)
Today we are releasing Stable Diffusion 3.5, our most powerful models yet.
Meissonic, High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis on consumer graphics cards (arxiv.org)
Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have made significant strides in visual generation, yet their paradigm remains fundamentally different from autoregressive language models, complicating the development of unified language-vision models.
Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life (gounfaked.com)
Royalty-free, copyright-free gallery of images generated by AI that look almost real. Download and use however you like. More images added every week.
Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated (twitter.com)
Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris (wired.com)
When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a communist nor, to the best of our knowledge, a Soviet cosplayer. And, as many observers noted, the woman in the photo, presumably generated by X’s Grok tool, had only a passing resemblance to the vice president.
Bill to ban most existing AI image generation models and services in California (reddit.com)
CSAM images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say (apnews.com)
GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping (genwarp-nvs.github.io)
Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images (arstechnica.com)
Instant image generation using Flux Schnell (fastflux.ai)