Everybody desires to get in on the AI picture era motion, however if you happen to’ve been intimidated by the present choices on the market based mostly on Secure Diffusion, together with the Midjourney Discord bot, you’re in luck: Diffusion Bee is a straightforward Mac app that offers you every thing you’ll want to generate your personal photographs from textual content immediate utilizing the open-source AI picture era framework.
The app, developed by Divam Gupta, requires no technical experience in any way and installs on M1 Macs through drag-and-drop. You have to an M1 or M2 Mac working at the least macOS 15.2, nevertheless — the app takes benefit of Apple Silicon’s built-in AI smarts and runs the Secure Diffusion mannequin domestically, which has the added benefit of making certain that nothing is shipped to any servers.
You possibly can tweak settings together with picture peak and width, in addition to the variety of steps the mannequin runs by way of to generate your end result, and the “Steerage Scale” — how a lot significance the mannequin locations in your textual content prompts when producing its outcomes. Word that in my testing at the least, adjusting these parameters increased than the defaults resulted in large will increase in how lengthy it took to provide the photographs.
That is a particularly straightforward (and free) method to begin enjoying round with Secure Diffusion your self, offered you’ve bought a Mac to make use of it.