DiffusionLab

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

Permanent collection · 1987 works · free to use

What the machines saw.

Stable Diffusion 1.5 on forty Tesla K80 GPUs, hardware from 2014 that can no longer do anything 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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Photography of post modern golf fashion, alien monument, 1970s, country club, resort style, kodachrome, cinematic. Work 364. 512 × 768, seed 1682392066895756.

Selected works

The ceremony of the keys: a marionette at a church bake sale, pyrography. Work 2000.
A penniless reed boat in a tenement, New England slate gravestone, ghost of a passerby, buzzing neon tubes. Work 1999.
An orrery diagram with too many planets, copperplate, hatching. Work 1998.
A cat on a piano in an empty concert hall, stage lighting, dust. Work 1997.
A starlit antique superconducting magnet, folk art painting, awaiting a signature, 360 panorama. Work 1996.
A half built art nouveau circus wagon, public information film, the lights will go out soon, metallic sheen. Work 1995.
Only for guests: a tsunami in a white squall, mixtape inlay. Work 1994.
A candied cook in a basement kitchen where two roads do not meet, ASCII art, crease across the photo. Work 1993.
A Citroen 2CV with a flat tyre in 1789, a hymn for car parks, Bob Ross landscape, pastel dust. Work 1992.
Two roads that do not meet: a beach pebble with a hole in 1970s Glasgow, CRT scanlines. Work 1991.

From the archive

Retro style illustration of Elvis Presley, highly detailed, bright colors, symmetrical, (humorous illustration trending on artstation:1.1). Work 462.
Cinematic photography of a cocktail bar, Filmic, dark room, hard light, retro colors. Work 397.
Antique vintage postcard of a Cyclops, cinematic composition, atmospheric. Work 1049.
A detailed and award winning poster of retrofuturism martini, beautiful symmetrical face, cinematic composition. Work 715.
Country club tilt-shift photography, intricate elegant highly detailed lifelike photorealistic realistic painting, octane render. Work 1132.