Diffusion

Stability.ai, maker of the Stable Diffusion image generator and StableLM text generator, launched Stable Audio, a system that generates music and sound effects from text. You can play with it and listen to examples here. The service is free for 20 generations per month up to 45 seconds long.

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

A pretrained text-to-image generator enabled researchers to see — roughly — what other people looked at based on brain scans. Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto developed a method that uses Stable Diffusion to reconstruct images viewed by test subjects...

Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.