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Creating free generative AI art: Stable Diffusion on the cloud and your local machine
Generative AI artwork has reached new heights with the introduction of DALL-E, an AI model created by OpenAI that can generate images from text descriptions. This breakthrough technology has the potential to revolutionize the way that artists and designers approach their craft, as well as change the way that we think about the creative process.
While the technology behind DALL-E is undoubtedly impressive, its limited availability and high cost as a closed-source system makes it inaccessible to some in certain ways.
Stable Diffusion, a model developed by Stability AI, shares similar capabilities to DALL-E, but is open source. Although it has its own downsides, its open source design allows creators to harness the power of generative AI on their own terms regardless of their hardware capabilities.
We’ll be working with AUTOMATIC1111’s stable-diffusion-webui code, which provides us with a UI interface built with the Gradio library on top of Stable Diffusion.
We’ll go step by step through both scenarios:
- ☁️ Setting up Stable Diffusion on the cloud with Google Colab
- 🖥 Setting up Stable Diffusion on your local machine
