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The whole Diffusion text to image thing which is hugely popular right now doesn't involve any training. Same for text generation where you download pre-trained models. I'm using a laptop with a 3080 and getting much faster results than I typically get from a paid Colab account (not Pro mind you).

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Which repo/tool are you using for local text to image diffusion if you don't mind sharing? :)

Not at all. I discovered that Visions of Chaos (originally developed for fractals etc) has extensive support for installing and running ML models

https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm

It handles (most) of the installation issues and gives you a GUI. You can however bypass the GUI. Every time you run a command the console shows you what the command line looks like so copy/paste into a terminal and away you go.

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