Stable Diffusion 3

The big news this week was that Stability.ai have released the weights for the latest iteration of their image generation model, Stable Diffusion 3. 

What does this mean? Well, by releasing the weights, Stability is making their Stable Diffusion 3 model available for individuals and organisations to download and use on their own computers. Given the number of tools and extensions that have been developed to support Stable Diffusion, and the ability to “fine-tune” these models with additional training, many image generation platforms and other diffusion-based tools use Stable Diffusion under the hood.

We’ve had extensive experience with Stable Diffusion since its initial release back in August 2022, diving into the power and potential of generative AI through our R&D efforts.

Last year, with the support of Digital Catapult and NVIDIA, we pursued in-depth R&D into Stable Diffusion through the MyWorld Challenge Call. Earlier this year, we worked with digital forensics company CameraForensics to help them explore the capabilities of Stable Diffusion and develop tools to aid in the detection of generated images.

So what’s new with Stable Diffusion 3? Stability claims its new model can better interpret prompts, better reproduce text and typography, as well as overall image quality and performance improvements. Time will tell if Stable Diffusion 3 is as popular as previous versions 

Due to the way models like Stable Diffusion have been trained on images scraped from the internet, there are many legal and ethical question marks over the use of it and other generative AI models in a professional commercial environment. As such, Lux Aeterna currently does not use these generative AI models in the creation and delivery of our VFX work. You can find out more about our AI use policy here.