I'd like to start a running discussion on AI image and video tech, and how to set yourself up to run your own text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) on your own computer.

I'm a noob at this myself. I've just managed to get SwarmUI up and running with a newly-arrived video card (NVIDIA RTX 3090-based card with 24GB), after an unsuccesful attempt a week ago with my old video card, a card that proved to be utterly inadequate to the task.

I've managed so far to generate a couple of boring images of houses and a couple of low-quality videos of cars driving down a street. Whoop tee doo. Enough to show my system basically works, way short of pleasing results.

I found the process of getting Wan 2.2 (the only video model I've installed so far) working very frustrating. I'm fairly sure it's only half working given the quality of my results so far.

I'd like this thread to be a place where noobs like me can share what we learn as we go along, and where those with more experience can hopefully jump in with advice.

I used ChatGPT to help get as far as I have, but it was often as misleading as it was helpful. The tutorials I've found online all assume too much previous experience for their advice to be easily followed.

huggingface.co is apparently the place to go for downloading models, LoRAs, and all the other crap I don't know much about yet. At this point I find huggingface.co more overwhelming than helpful, but I hope to get beyond that point in time.