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How to Generate Stunning Art on Your Laptop using AI
How to use Stable Diffusion to create realistic images from a description in natural language, without a GPU.
As a kid, I always admired people who could draw whatever came to mind. I could watch them for hours as they would give shape to seemingly arbitrary lines on paper. Unfortunately, I was not blessed with that gift.
Time went by, and today AI can help me materialize the ideas I have in my head. It’s not the same thing, and the process is not even remotely as satisfying. But it’s a way I can express my thoughts on paper.
I was excited when OpenAI granted me access to the DALL·E 2 private beta program. However, the downside was the limitations of what I could do with it, how many times I could use it, the price tag, and the idea that I don’t control the software in any way.
Then, Stable Diffusion came to the party. Much like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language. It combines concepts, attributes, and styles to create unique photos or device variations of existing pictures. And the good news is that you can run it on your laptop today.