Stable Diffusion Parameter Variations

All of a sudden, all that anybody seems to talk about when it comes to AI-based image generation is Stable Diffusion from Stability AI. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you 🙂

Till Stable Diffusion came along, if you wanted to do any image generation using AI, you either had to use the limited (in terms of free) image generation provided by Dall-e or MidJourney, or look at Google’s Imagen and simply hope/wish that one day you would have access to that kind of quality when generating images 😛

Sure, there are other alternatives like Craiyon, but the quality isn’t as good as that of Dall-e or its ilk. Or, if you prefer doing everything on your own, you could get the open source implementations of Imagen such as this one, train your own model and then do image generation on your own machine. Of course, the trouble is that it would take you a very long time to generate a model good enough on a single machine, or even a couple of machines, that you might own.

But all that is behind you now because Stability AI was good enough to release the Stable Diffusion model they trained free of charge — the model was apparently trained for over 150,000 hours (that’s about 410 years BTW) on a large network of 256 computers.

So now you can download the pre-trained Stable Diffusion model and immediately start generating…