https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgygy4/stable-diffusion-stability-ai-nsfw-ai-generated-porn > On Monday, after an invite-only testing period, artificial intelligence company Stability AI released its text-to-image generation model, called Stable Diffusion, into the world as open-access. Like DALL-E Mini or Midjourney, Stable Diffusion is capable of creating vivid, even photorealistic images from simple text prompts using neural networks. Unlike DALL-E Mini or Midjourney, whose creators have implemented limits on what kind of images they can produce, Stable Diffusion’s model can be downloaded and tweaked by users to generate whatever they want. Inevitably, many of them are generating porn. > Stability AI has had more than 15,000 beta testers helping develop the model, and offered a release to researchers only earlier this month. But the model has leaked well before Monday’s official release—which means that even before the open-access launch, and despite the company’s ban on generating explicit or sexual images, people have been hard at work churning out the horniest stuff possible, the only limit being what they can put into words.