Steampunk Girl #13

Like the rest of the world, I've been playing around with AI generated art. In my case, I've been using Stable Diffusion UI. Stable Diffusion UI is an easy to install variation of Stable Diffusion that also includes a GUI. I was able to get it running on both Windows and Linux without too much effort. The easy install was what appealed to me the most though I have been using the GUI as well. It's been a while so I don't know how things have changed but the original version of Stable Diffusion could be a pain to get up and working sometimes.

To get reasonably fast results you need a decent GPU. However, you don't actually need a GPU at all to use Stable Diffusion UI, as long as you are not in a hurry anyway. If you don't have a GPU, each image will take a much longer time to produce as the CPU is much less efficient for this sort of thing than a GPU. It can take thirty minutes or even much longer depending on your specific hardware and the settings you use. However, this is open source software so you can generate as many images as you like without worrying about signing up for anything or paying a subscription fee. The end result is that even with limited hardware, you can still produce as many images as you want as long as you are patient.

I've been generating a lot of steampunk images. Some turn out well, some don't, some are subtle in their steampunk theme, some are anything but. This one is fairly subtle but there are clear steampunk elements, including the goggles around her neck. I'm posting this unedited but you can see how AI can get things slightly wrong in various ways. The thing that jumps out most in this image is the spacing. The person is too far down in the image. Of course, this can be mitigated by cropping but then you lose some of the interesting background aspects.