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How come it is so slow?
Is it user traffic or just the AI getting better and bigger, 'cause I don't know
It looks like user traffic, unfortunately, now that the app is getting better and starting to produce decent pics, a ton of people are coming in wanting to use it.
Generation times have blown out from 20 seconds to up to 2 minutes, and lots of 'Too Much Traffic!' notices as well.
I already miss the good old days of..... five days ago, haha
Sorry for being here a little late. But apparently 6 hours ago ( 1 hour prior to the thread being opened ) Two Minute Papers posted a picture from DALL-E 2 with the prompt "stern looking fox in a labcoat, casting a magic spell". The timing of this seems to indicate to me that the flood of users came from that.
its being endlessly reposted to 4chan for the past 3 days and now reddit found it as well it seems
2 minute papers mentioned it in a video
Well, ok I would suggest using the Colab then, idk why everything is so annoying, but I wish it wouldn't.
While Dall-E mini is running on insanely high performance server hardware, the recent popularity has locked up the hardware making it incredibly difficult to get requests in. For reference, people who do AI development have been running this model on their workstations, machines with multiple GPUs and very high-end CPUs and still take minutes to generate images. For reference, a home computer with a mid-range processor and no GPU would more than likely take hours if not days to generate a single image. TONS of people are putting in queries every second and so i'ts difficult to get a request in as such. Most of these people are children, so your best bet to get images is requesting at night, during the weekday, or during typical US school hours (7-3 EST or PST). More than likely I see Dall-E mini going the same path as AI dungeon 2, where AI enthusiasts got to try it quickly when it released, the internet found out about it and overloaded the servers, and then the service host basically said pay up or shut down, so it goes pay to use and the popularity tanks almost instantly, which honestly for the devs might be the best possible outcome.