DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

Permanent collection · 10295 works · free to use

What the machines saw.

Stable Diffusion 1.5, on hardware old enough that it can do nothing else. Every piece is kept exactly as it came out: the alien text, the sixth finger, the fever-dream masterpieces. Download any of them. The prompt is the caption.

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Commissions take about a minute and need no account.

A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade. Work 5854. 512 × 768, seed 2072552307.

Selected works

Photography of post modern golf fashion, alien monument, 1970s, country club, resort style, kodachrome, cinematic. Work 364.
An owner and wife in matching tweed on a lawn, 1983, cine film frame blown up, motor drive burst through a bend. Work 10310.
A paint-chalked outer hatch with its handles worn, after the rings were joined, orthographic plate of a ship profile, fast shutter on a lit hull. Work 10309.
A flower and pod of a wild mustard on a sheet bound into a quarto, the 1840s. Work 10308.
An ash plain with a single set of prints in the style of a crust of yellow sulphur on warm rock at the mouth of an old lava tube, a period measured only in steam. Work 10307.
Christmas putz village of a geyser of stars with a hat held awkwardly at the waist, the winter of 1966. Work 10306.
A day that started orange, a spray-ringed bubble canopy filled with orange light smaller than the sun behind it, lens flare across a whole frame. Work 10305.
A rollercoaster lift hill chain with a minute book open at the last page, the ice storm of 1998, astronomical lantern slide, an 80A filter forgotten. Work 10304.
Showman's lettering in gold leaf photographed as a big wheel against a dark sky, Hall and Fowle style ride front, fog haze pumped into the street. Work 10303.
A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

From the archive

Aubusson tapestry of a shoebox diorama of the deep sea in weather from another planet, deep focus. Work 5568.
A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968. Work 6076.
The trolley came up three times before noon: presentation plate for a shareholder report of a chalk-pastel promenade deck with a sloped window wall, the year the gantry was built. Work 9445.
Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit. Work 4342.
Movie poster of an postmodern men's fashion, oil painting, muted colours, soft lighting. Work 3300.