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Can someone give this completely ignorant old fellow a description of what the author is doing in this article?

What is the initial drawing being done with?

What is this stable diffusion process? (Amazing is one answer.)

A very brief description of the software used.

Color me astounded. I actually liked (was delighted by) the results in step-6. When I realized it was done programmatically somehow, I had to pick myself up and get back in my chair.

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The author is using a text-to-image neural network to generate an image, in this case the author is also conditioning the model on a sketch to guide the generation process.

Okay. Now I'm starting to wonder if folks who worry about AI taking over are onto something. Well, not really... yet. But color me absolutely flabbergasted.

Thanks for the explain.

This has been flabbergasting a lot of us. I have been playing with these text to image models for about a month and I still cannot believe it.

Try for yourself a bit. Here’s my current favorite interface to Stable Diffusion. Give it a little sketch, then go wild with the prompt description. Try different style descriptions like oil painting or comic book.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest

Thanks! I'm gonna try it out. First, though, I think I'm going to add an exorcist to my contacts list. This is honestly the closest thing to magic I've ever encountered.

I made this in your honor. Call on him in a time of need. https://labs.openai.com/s/r4Y8SfSWhNdiXpnh5vFj3aZ3

Ahhh! That's great. Thanks!

Like telling an artist "hey, could you add a tree", "now recreate it, but make it appear to be on the moon", only that he's talking to an AI (artificial neural network).

Indeed. This seems like it's in the uncanny valley of can do vs should not be able to do. Delightful but strange.

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