Adventures in Imagineering — Stable Diffusion, the Unstable Bits …

I figured out a more or less functional set up for running Stable Diffusion on my Apple M1 MacBook Pro a couple of days ago. Since then, I’ve mostly done Stable Diffusion tasks on my local machine instead of doing things on Google Colab (or Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab).

Working on the local machine, at least for me, gives me more time to think about what I’m doing and to try to improve upon the code. And in the process, I’ve learnt a few things which affect people working on Apple Silicon devices. Plus, I did some…