First photographers were creating portraits of people that don't exist, now Aurel Manea has created a series of 'landscape photos' using a new AI software program called Stable Diffusion.
, but differs from other AI image generators, such as DALL-E, because it has no content filter and is open source.
“Stable Diffusion will allow both researchers and soon the public to run this under a range of conditions, democratizing image generation,” Stability AI CEO and founder“We look forward to the open ecosystem that will emerge around this and further models to truly explore the boundaries of latent space.”that it “poses tricky ethical questions for the AI community”
AI image generators open up a world of possibilities which is what makes the technology so exciting. But, it could also open doors for crooks, frauds, and shysters. Mostaque’s company, Stability AI, created LAION 5B, an open-source, 250-terabyte dataset containing 5.6 billion images scraped from the internet.
It also added a subset of two billion AI-filtered images that were ranked as “beautiful” by testers of Stable Diffusion.. Stability AI does not assert rights over images created with Stable Diffusion and the images belong to the users who prompted them.