There is an artificial intelligence for practically everything these days, although many are of little or no interest at all. You probably know ChatGPT, which is the best known and most popular. We are not going to talk about this one, but about Stable DiffusionMidjourney’s free AI that allows you to generate images and we are going to explain how you can install and use without internet connection.
There are different types of AI that allow you to create images, such as DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Microsoft Designer. All of them are characterized by the fact that they can generate any type of image based on a prompt (a text).
In addition, all of them require an internet connection to be able to use them, well, not all of them. The solution developed by Midjourney can be run locally, that is, without the need for an internet connection. We are going to explain how you can use Stable Diffusion locally step by step.
Requirements to install Stable Diffusion
The first thing we need to know is whether our computer is capable of running this AI. It is not particularly demanding, but it may be the case that many users cannot install and use it.
First, this software requires about 15 GB of spacewhich is not much. Actually, this is the simplest requirement and you should have no problems meeting it. The truth is that there is a second requirement that can be more problematic.
We need a graphics card with very specific characteristics. The first thing is that works better with graphics of NVIDIA, We imagine, because the software has been optimized for these charts. The chart is required to have, at a minimum, 4GB VRAM memory. Nothing else, it doesn’t require you to have Tensor Cores or Ray Accelerators, so the graph can be a few years old, although it must meet the amount of memory.
Install Stable Diffusion on our computer
In our case, we are going to use the Easy Diffusion tool in the most recent version we can find. This tool is based on the Midjourney solution, allowing it to be run locally. To access and download this software, click here. Then, follow these steps:
- Once we download the software, we must double-click to start it.
- A security message appears. Click on “More information”.
- Now, we need to click on the “Run anyway” button.
- We continue clicking on Next until the installation process is complete. This process may take a while.
- A command console will open and install the software. Don’t touch anything, be patient.
- After installation, a new tab will open in your computer’s browser. Do not close the command window.
- Now we can start creating our images.
At this point you must create a prompt to generate the desired image. The more information you give the tool, the better the result will be. There are no major mysteries, really, since it is not very different from how the web works.
Getting quality images based on what we think is a matter of practice. There is no manual that states that based on certain commands, the software is more than sufficient or will generate better images.