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How AI image generators make a picture from your words

Ask an AI image generator for a fox that reads a newspaper in the snow. No camera takes the picture, and no artist draws it. One minute before, your fox was a square of random dots. Stable Diffusion removes that noise step by step, and your words guide every step. Learn how diffusion, the text encoder CLIP and the seed work. Then find out why the same words give a new fox each time, why the newspaper has no real words on it, and why a hand can get a sixth finger.