A GPU and plenty of time to spend downloading
WHILE MOST OF THE TEXT-AND IMAGE-GENERATING AI MODELS we’ve discussed here run in massive throbbing data centers on racks of GPUs—indeed, Elon Musk purchased 10,000 Nvidia cards in March for an unannounced AI project within Twitter—there is one that can be run on your home PC.
Stable Diffusion is a deep learning text-to-image service that was released in 2022. It uses a diffusion model rather than a large language model, but the concept is broadly similar in that it’s probability based and is trained from images harvested from the wider internet, plus
