Stable Diffusion: New And FREE Text-To-Image AI Tool

Jim Clyde Monge
CodeX
Published in
5 min readAug 15, 2022

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In the world of text-to-image AI generator models, OpenAI’s Dall-E2 is an obvious pick for the best tool that’s currently available.

It does, however, have a significant artificial limitation: it is unable to produce images of well-known individuals, including politicians and celebrities. Additionally, using the service has a price tag attached to it.

There is now a completely free competitor that functions practically identically to Dall-E2 but without as many filters — Stable Diffusion.

Let’s discuss a few topics.

  • What is Stable Diffusion?
  • How does it work?
  • How to get early access?
  • My first generated images

What Is Stable Diffusion?

On Stability AI’s website, Stable Diffusion is described as a text-to-image model that will enable billions of people to produce beautiful art in a matter of seconds.

Stable Diffusion collage of sample images from GitHub
Stable Diffusion sample images

This model employs a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 text encoder to condition the model on text prompts, much like Google’s Imagen does. The model uses a GPU…

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