What is the medium of AI art?

May 2023


This artist’s impression of a concept being revealed in the model’s latent space


In this article I share some of the ways that I think about the medium of machine-learning art-creation tools. I look at how fine-tuning techniques are used to discover the forms of concepts inside of Stable Diffusion’s latent space.



Exploring diffusion models

February 2023


Increasing amounts of noise being added to an image


The current generation of AI art tools are based on a type of machine learning model called diffusion models. In this deep-dive, I explain in an easy-to-understand way the technical concepts underlying how these models work.

I cover latent space, CLIP models, denoising and textual inversion.