Beginner's Guide to Diffusion Models

Recently, there has been an increased interest in OpenAI's DALL-E, Stable Diffusion (the free alternative of DALL-E), and Midjourney (hosted on a Discord server). While AI-generated art is very cool, what is even more captivating is how it works in the first place. In the last section, I will include some resources for anyone to get started in this AI art space as well. So how do these technologies work? It uses something called a latent diffusion model, and the idea behind it is actually ingenious.