Overview and setup

0:00 learn how to use stable diffusion to create art and images in this full course you will learn how to train your own model how to use control net and how to use stable diffusion's API endpoint this course focuses on teaching you how to use stable diffusion as a tool instead of going into the technical details it's a perfect starting place for beginners Lin Zhang developed this course she is a software engineer at Salesforce and a free code Camp team member let's get started hey everyone I'm Lane I'm a software engineer and a hobbyist game developer and today I'm bringing you a new Hands-On coding tutorial in today's video we're gonna generate art using an AI tool called stable diffusion if you look up the definition of stable diffusion it is a deep learning text to image model released in 2022 based on diffusion techniques in today's video we're gonna focus on teaching you how to use stable diffusion as a tool instead of going into the technical details to understand some big terms like variational autoencoders or embeddings or diffusion techniques you

1:11 will have to have some machine learning background and also do some research on your own there is some Hardware requirement for this course you will need to have access to some form of GPU either local or AWS or some other Cloud hosted ones to try out the course material because it will be hosting our own instance of stable diffusion it's very unfortunate uh this will not work for the free GPU environment that Google collab provides because Google collab bans the multiplication from running in their notebooks don't worry if you really don't have access to any GPU power it is still possible for you to try out some web hosted stable division instances I will include an extra part at the end of this video to show you how you can access these cloud-hosted environments so that said let's take a look at the topics we're going to cover today the first one will be how to use stable diffusion how to set it up locally the second how to train your own model for a specific character or art style we call these Laura models Third how to use control net a popular stable diffusion plugin and last but not least how to use

2:23 stable diffusion's API endpoint at the end of the course you should have no problem generating images that look like these pretty impressive huh all right I know you're excited but before we get started uh disclaimer we respect the work of artists and acknowledge that AI generated art using stable diffusion is a tool that could be used to enhance creativity but it does not replace the value of human creativity all right and now we are ready to get started let's start by installing stable diffusion on your local we're gonna go to the skithub repository and install them based on the instructions I'm gonna be installing on a Linux