Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is an open source AI art generator software released in 2022. It is primarily used to generate detailed images conditioned on text descriptions (text-to-image, "txt2img"), though it also has image-to-image ("img2img") features such as inpainting and outpainting. It can generate output in practically any artistic style as well as photorealistic images.

Stable Diffusion's code and model weights have been released publicly, and it can run on most consumer hardware equipped with a modest GPU with at least 8GB VRAM. This marked a departure from previous proprietary text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney which were accessible only via cloud services. Stable Diffusion can run on Windows, Linux, MacOS and other operating systems. There are also ways to use Stable Diffusion without a GPU (graphics card), and ways to use Stable Diffusion online on any computer or mobile device, see the links below.

The many different implementations and distributions of Stable Diffusion each have their own special features, and these change rapidly as new versions of the software are released. The rest of this page describes the AUTOMATIC1111 web UI implementation and some of its extensions unless otherwise noted.

More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Stable_Diffusion ]