An Amateur's Guide to Using AI Image Generators

I think we can all agree that 2022 is the year of the AI generative art boom. If you've been keeping tabs on social media, you've likely seen some artificial intelligence-inspired memes floating around on your newsfeed. Some of the most widely shared images were developed by DALL-E Mini, now known as Craiyon, a publicly accessible image generation tool that debuted this year. Now, three additional applications, Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion have beta versions that are available to play with today! At a distance, it looks like the four tools operate with the same premise -- enter a text-based prompt and receive a series of relevant pictures through advanced machine learning that combs through and learns from millions of images on the internet.