Eli5 how are people using ai to generate art?
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There’s numerous AIs right now competing for the best program. The one that’s gotten the most headlines is Dall-E 2, though most of the images shared come from one called Midjourney. Right now, the best one I’ve found by far is one called Stability Diffusion. You can apply for access to all of these. They’re not publicly available but it’s not hard to get in. One of the only publicly available ones is an early off shoot of Dall-E 2 called Dall-E mini. It’s… Not great, and can only produce low resolution images.
All of them, save DALL-E Mini, operate on a token system, so you have access to a certain number of tokens each month/week from which you can generate an image with. It’s usually 1 token per image but altering the parameters or ordering extra iterations can cost extra tokens. DALL-E provides 300 tokens a month I believe and you can purchase more for like $1 per 100 tokens. The exception is Stability Diffusion, which has a token system if you want to use their servers to generate the image, but they’re also supporting open source versions of the code, so you can run it yourself. It’s actually caused quite a bit of controversy as a lot of people fear open sourcing this kind of technology, especially with Stabilities capability.
Nonetheless, it’s been producing a fantastic visual journal for my D&D campaign. Stability is also the only AI I’ve found so far that can reliably produce legible text. The other AIs haven’t learned yet that text isn’t just random wiggly squiggles, but somehow Stability learned.
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