Transcending the Image-Text Boundary with Stable Diffusion
The essence of a diffusion model relies on the freedom it possesses to invent pixels when generating an image. From that perspective, diffusion models have taken text-to-image generation to another level. Instead of trying to create the exact representation of images they have learned, diffusion models can imagine pixels within the boundaries of the text provided.
Stability AI is a leader in Generative AI. They produced Stable Diffusion, one of the fastest-growing AI projects. From that concept, mind-blowing applications have begun to appear in every direction, including Midjourney’s application on Discord and Runway’s Gen-2 that we will encounter in Chapter 19, On the Road to Functional AGI with HuggingGPT and its Peers and Chapter 20, Beyond Human-Designed Prompts with Generative Ideation.
The goal of this chapter is not to attempt to analyze the many Stable Diffusion architectures flowing into the...
