Stable Diffusion is a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022 based on diffusion techniques. It is considered to be a part of the ongoing artifical intelligence boom.
An image generated with Stable Diffusion based on the text prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse"
Image: Night City Sphere (SD1.5)
Image: Night City Sphere (SDXL)
A text-to-image model is a machine learning model which takes an input natural language description and produces an image matching that description.
Examples of images and captions from three public datasets which are commonly used to train text-to-image models