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Stable diffusion generates images based on text descriptions known as prompts.
During the training process of this model, statistical associations were made between images and related words, making a much smaller representation of key information about each image and storing them as weights.
These weights are quantified values that essentially represent what the model/AI has learned.
When stable diffusion analyses and compresses images into weight form (learning them so to speak), they are transformed into a latent space representation. Existing as a transformation of data that can be turned into images once decoded.
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