ML//diffusion model//latent diffusion//Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is an open-source latent diffusion model (Stability AI, August 2022) that turns text into images through a CLIP text encoder and cross-attention conditioning.

Stable Diffusion is an open-source latent diffusion model (Stability AI, August 2022) that turns text into images through a CLIP text encoder and cross-attention conditioning.

It was the Napster moment for AI art: anyone could run it locally, fine-tune it and build on top of it. It spawned the entire ecosystem of ControlNet, LoRA image adapters, inpainting and img2img.