Like many people, I have been playing around with AI generated art (text to image). In my case, I have been using Stable Diffusion UI. This is an easy to install version of Stable Diffusion that also includes a graphical user interface. I was able to get it running on both Windows and Linux without too much difficulty. While the included GUI is convenient, the easy install was what appealed to me the most. Some versions can be a pain to install and setup whereas this one is pretty straightforward.
To get fast results you need a decent GPU with a pretty hefty amount of VRAM. However, a GPU is not a requirement to use Stable Diffusion UI as long as you have enough patience. If you choose to generate images using only the CPU, each image will take much longer to generate than with a GPU. It can take thirty minutes or more for each image depending on your hardware and the settings you use. However, this is open source software so you can generate as many images as you want without buying or signing up for anything. The end result is that even with limited hardware, you can still produce all the images you want as long as you are willing to wait for them.
Steampunk has been one of the key words that I have frequently used and this is a continuation of a series of images I have been posting occasionally for a while now. The amount of "steampunk' in such images can vary greatly from pretty close to none to a lot.
Both of these were kind of fails in terms of the steampunk department. There's really not a whole lot here that you could point to as steampunk elements. These look more like characters that would perhaps appear in a fantasy world. Nevertheless, I still kind of liked how these images turned out even if I didn't really get what I intended (which happens often with AI).
