Stable Diffusion, Intuitively Explained

Intuition, Past, and Future of Text-to-Image Models

Tim Cvetko
6 min readJan 21, 2024

22nd of August, 2022. Ever since the dawn of computers, we fantasized a human-like interface that would listen to us and create. In seconds!

The dream of visual creators everywhere had been realized. That visual creativity had been unleashed.

Stable Diffusion came out. The 1st Fully-Fledged Text-to-Image AI model.

Naturally, the 1st thing everybody wanted to create was …

a flying cat in space

Image created with Stable Diffusion

or …

a pirate labrador with a walking stick

Image created with Stable Diffusion

But what sparked this revolution in image prompt creation and how can it create such fine-grained images? ↓

Here’s What You’ll Learn:

  1. How the “Overnight” Revolution in Text-to-Image Occured
  2. How Diffusion Models Work Intuitively
  3. Stable Diffusion Architecture
  4. What Lies Ahead for Diffusion…

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Tim Cvetko

mlops @ sync.labs (yc w24) │writing about ai/business (e/acc)│ timcvetko.com