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How Stable Diffusion Works

The ability for a computer to generate art from nothing but a written description is fascinating! I know that I, for one, would be desperately curious to see what’s actually going on “under the hood” that would make this possible, so I wanted to do what I can here to provide a less superficial explanation of what’s going on even for those who aren’t familiar with the concepts in artificial intelligence.

How img2img Diffusion Works

Running Stable Diffusion by providing both a prompt and an initial image (a.k.a.”img2img” diffusion) can be a powerful technique for creating AI art.