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Previous episode Latent space: what an AI image generator really works on

How AI image generators make a picture from your words

Seed: why the same prompt gives a different AI picture every time

You use the same prompt, the same settings and the same model. Still, you get a different picture each time you press Generate. A computer cannot throw dice. So where does the change come from?

  1. 1 Each try starts from its own square of noise, picked at random. But a computer has no dice to throw: it does sums, and the same sum always gives the same answer.+ ×Same sum in,same answer out.

    Each try starts from its own square of noise, picked at random. But a computer has no dice to throw: it does sums, and the same sum always gives the same answer.

  2. 2 Still, your two tries started from two squares of noise that look nothing alike. If not from dice, where did the difference come from?+ ×?≠first trysecond try

    Still, your two tries started from two squares of noise that look nothing alike. If not from dice, where did the difference come from?

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