How did you make it so fast? Are the multiple combinations generated in parallel ahead of time once you breed images? Seems like the GPU power must be immense.
The 1024x1024 StyleGAN2 network can generate an image in around 200ms - 500ms. And Artbreeder may be powered by some beefy GPUs, so that might reduce the latency to something like 100ms. Throw in 100ms of server lag time, and it feels almost instantaneous. It's quite a technical achievement!
Nothing fancy, just running on AWS :) Specifically, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4/ - The uploading is actually the expensive part since it can take ~2 minutes per image.
How much are you paying to keep this up? Is it expensive to run GPU instances like this?
it's not cheap but there are ways to make it manageable, i.e a aws spot g4 instance can be as low as 15 cents an hour
How do you handle interrupt? Do you keep multiple instances in different zones?