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The stable diffusion model just got officially released recently, and in the last week a lot of easy to install repositories have been forked off the main one, so it's very accessible for people to do this at home. Additionally, the model is very impressive and it's a lot of fun to use it.

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How does it compare to DALL-E

Worse at image cohesion and prompt matching, but competitive in terms of final image quality in the better cases.

Its image quality is often better, mainly because you can run it on your own machine and increase the quality/time controls. DALLE2 lacks settings and doesn't run enough diffusion steps to have fine detail.

Having had access to DallE for awhile, I find both Midjourney and stable diffusion to be quite a bit more powerful.

For weird inputs I find DALL-E to be better, but both have failed at really specific stuff that I've tried to create as art. ie: a factory with human lungs.

With stable diffusion, it really creates some nice stuff for what is already available, like a pizza with specific toppings [0]. I've been using it to add pictures to any of the recipes that are added to my wiki site without a picture. I originally tried this with DALL-E with similar prompts and the results are less appetizing.

[0] - https://www.reciped.io/recipes/mushroom-and-onion-pizza/

Some arbitrary comparisons I did:

Piano keyboard: https://mobile.twitter.com/skybrian/status/15629121632697303...

Model train layout: https://mobile.twitter.com/skybrian/status/15629200301441064...

Turtle sand sculpture: https://mobile.twitter.com/skybrian/status/15640856320323174...

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