AI know what you did last summer.
<p>On 22nd of August 2022, Skynet went online and started learning at a geometric rate.</p>
<p>At least, that’s what I’m sure it felt like for graphic illustrators.</p>
<p>On that day, <a href="https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Stable Diffusion</a>, a deep learning text-to-image model was released. Like many others, I downloaded and started playing with it.</p>
<p>You’d type in a sentence like “man riding a motorbike, being chased by a bear”. What came out, at least for me, looked more like a nightmare- artistic yet often horrific images of people with extra body parts and warped faces in dream-like scenes. Reminiscent of a Picasso if drawn by Salvador Dali, the fusion of people and objects was striking, yet unnerving.</p>
<p>There was however something truly <em>breathtaking </em>about the software’s uncanny ability to manifest <em>any </em>typed-in concept into an illustration.</p>
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