Stable Diffusion Goes Public -- and the Internet Freaks Out

Welcome to The Long View--where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let's work out what really matters. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you'll have seen something about Stable Diffusion. Like DALL-E and Midjourney, you give it a textual "prompt" and it generates amazing images (or sometimes utter garbage). Mark Hachman calls it'The new killer app' "Fine-tune your algorithmic art" AI art is fascinating.