Running Stable Diffusion Locally

Today I installed Stable Diffusion locally, launched the web UI, and used a model I trained previously on my own face to generate pictures of me in different styles.

It takes a little while to run each prompt, usually between 3-5 minutes per image, but it is very amazing to be generating images like this on a Macbook.

So in under an hour, for free, you can train Stable Diffusion on images of your face and be generating images to your heart's content of you in strange situations with just your laptop.

Things are moving fast. In no time, we will all have the tools of a major movie production studio at our fingertips. This includes VFX, a limitless pool of AI actors and voices, and the ability to generate new characters, models and animations with clicks of a button.

If you are sufficiently imaginative, you are likely to prosper. AI models provide new extensions to human creativity and with them we can each create new worlds to inhabit and share.

The future seems to point to manifesting fascinating content and digital artifacts, transmitting authenticity, proving you're human and/or warping the lines of what human means given AI superpowers.

The world is a stage, infused with characters real and imaginary, and attention is the only commodity of value.