Simon Willison’s Weblog

The AI that creates any picture you want, explained. Vox made this explainer video about text-to-image generative AI models back in June, months before Stable Diffusion was released and shortly before the DALL-E preview started rolling out to a wider audience. It’s a really good video—in particular the animation that explains at a high level how diffusion models work, which starts about 5m30s in.