Artists.csv dropped from master?

[EdHerdman]

It seems that artists.csv has been removed from master, which used to be found at:
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/master/artists.csv

That's a bummer because it was a handy resource to load up in a tab next to WebUI, especially with older models. Anybody have a link handy?

For the raw artist list from CLIP, you can check out this link: https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator/blob/1080560c48daf421ebf44f4791840e4db947bc01/data/artists.txt

[medledan]

Just noticed this too. 3000+ artists removed. WHY?

[ataa]

Removed in this commit (6d805b6):

make CLIP interrogator download original text files if the directory …

…does not exist

remove random artist built-in extension (to re-added as a normal extension on demand)
remove artists.csv (but what does it mean????????????????????)
make interrogate buttons show Loading... when you click them

You can still get it from here: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/40ff6db5325fc34ad4fa35e80cb1e7768d9f7e75/artists.csv

[zrichz]

hmm some duplicates in there for some reason (eg Georgia O’Keeffe) -but not a problem ofc. Thanks for sharing the link :)

[Harvester62]

Adding that file is useless if there isn't a function that uses it in SD Web UI, which has been currently removed (the icon to right click on to add three random artists).
What might be done, alternatively, is to use the "Style Pile" script, or click on an artist in the "Artists to Study" extension and then paste (Ctrl+V) in the prompt textbox, or select an artist in the "Inspiration" extension and click on "Send to txt2img" button. Alternatively, you can use the Wildcards extension with the artists.csv file after converting it to a .txt file, or even better create your ad-hoc "artists.txt" list of specific artists you like the most (I suggest you to check with the HaveIBeenTrained.com website to be sure the artist has been used to train the model - applicable perhaps only to v1.4/1.5 models) and add "_artists_, _artists_, _artists_" in the prompt textbox (the underscores should be double, but here they get cut away).

[medledan]

Adding that file is useless if there isn't a function that uses it in SD Web UI, which has been currently removed (the icon to right click on to add three random artists). What might be done, alternatively, is to use the "Style Pile" script, or click on an artist in the "Artists to Study" extension and then paste (Ctrl+V) in the prompt textbox, or select an artist in the "Inspiration" extension and click on "Send to txt2img" button. Alternatively, you can use the Wildcards extension with the artists.csv file after converting it to a .txt file, or even better create your ad-hoc "artists.txt" list of specific artists you like the most (I suggest you to check with the HaveIBeenTrained.com website to be sure the artist has been used to train the model - applicable perhaps only to v1.4/1.5 models) and add "artists, artists, artists" in the prompt textbox (the underscores should be double, but here they get cut away).

Yeah but the feature worked just fine, by adding random artists? All these suggestions just add additional complexity to a process that wasn't complex at all.

[Harvester62]

Mine were only "suggestions" to get similar results for that removed function, but you can disregard them if you don't think they are useful to you.

[EdHerdman]

I'm thankful for additional process suggestions, but just because the file is not used currently by WebUI does not make it 'useless.' Could it be misleading for users who think that it should apply to every model? Yeah, sure, but that suggests maybe renaming or a redirect as less-destructive alternatives would be a good idea.

The way I used it was just to remind myself of the correct way to spell some of the more baroque artist names, and for that purpose it worked just fine and was not 'useless.'

[Kilvoctu]

I noticed with the commit that dropped artists.csv, it also removed "Interrogate: use artists from artists.csv" from the Web UI settings. I actually prefer to not have artists in my interrogate output. Currently, the interrogate results have random artists/styles/etc appended to them. Is there any way to remove this?

edit: This got remedied (and improved) when #7113 was merged, thanks @vladmandic !!!

[camenduru]

I put it here https://github.com/camenduru/stable-diffusion-webui-artists-to-study If you want to improve the categories and add new artists, please contribute to the repository. 🤗

[Harvester62]

If the list of artists is a curated one, meaning that the artists listed are included in the training database of the model used to AI generate an image (that's the reason why I provided those referenced websites), then they can be properly interpreted and used by SDWUI. In the contrary, they wouldn't provide any meaningful results. Am I wrong?
I think it might be more useful to customize a list of artists to be picked randomly so to only use those that I like the most, or which produce the most interesting results when added to the prompt (or to avoid using living artists in the prompt). But that's "my way" to approach the matter. The most important thing is to have more than one choice or methodology to do something, and inside SDWUI there are several available.

[vladmandic]

instead of having unmanaged artists.csv in root, there is a replacement
first time you use clip interrogate feature, it will populate /interrogate folder with artists.txt, flavors.txt, mediums.txt and movements.txt (and they are faaaar bigger - make sure you have a sane clip limit or no amount of vram will help)

note that folder and files do not exist until you first trigger clip interrogate.

and settings -> interrogate options has a selectable list which you want to be used during interrogate (see pr #7113 for details).
if you add your own file into the folder, you can also use it, just make sure its a .txt

[illtellyoulater]

@vladmandic using clip interrogate will not download artists.txt but just flavors.txt, mediums.txt and movements.txt ...

[vladmandic]

@illtellyoulater it downloads all four:

    category_types = ["artists", "flavors", "mediums", "movements"]
    for category_type in category_types:
            torch.hub.download_url_to_file(f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator/main/clip_interrogator/data/{category_type}.txt", os.path.join(tmpdir, f"{category_type}.txt"))
        os.rename(tmpdir, content_dir)

[illtellyoulater]

That's what's supposed to happen... but I only get flavors, mediums and movements...
I don't have any other files in the interrogate dir except those.

I tried deleting them to retrigger download, but again it will only fetch those 3 and no artitst.txt.
Not sure what's going on here...

Could anyone reading this please check the /interrogate dir and let me know if you have it or not?

[ataa]

Could anyone reading this please check the /interrogate dir and let me know if you have it or not?

[Harvester62]

I do have an artists.txt file beside the flavors.top3.txt, mediums.txt, and movements.txt files inside the C:\stable-diffusion-webui\interrogate folder, all with the same date of Jan. 21st, 2023.
artists.txt

[illtellyoulater]

many thanks for your accurate feedback!

[vladmandic]

I just removed /interrogate and it was created and correctly populated:

 $ ls -la automatic/interrogate/
total 1864
drwxr-xr-x  2 vlado vlado    4096 2023-01-31 14:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 vlado vlado    4096 2023-01-31 14:31 ..
-rw-------  1 vlado vlado   82438 2023-01-31 14:31 artists.txt
-rw-------  1 vlado vlado 1804274 2023-01-31 14:31 flavors.txt
-rw-------  1 vlado vlado    1606 2023-01-31 14:31 mediums.txt
-rw-------  1 vlado vlado    2683 2023-01-31 14:31 movements.txt

[Harvester62]

I think I will do the same because that flavors.top3.txt file is strangely named. The content is fine.

[vladmandic]

flavors.top3.txt was in production for a day before i made a change (which also allows you to exclude specific file from interrogate via settings) :)

[Harvester62]

Thank you for the explanation. So, no harm to delete the folder and recall that function to rebuild it. What if I simply rename it to flavors.txt? Would it be fine, or would you recommend to get a brand new version of it?

[vladmandic]

only way to re-download files right now is to remove the folder. if folder exists, webui is going to use whatever is inside it. if it doesn't exist, it will download default 4 files.
and no danger of renaming file, its the same file.