The author is using a text-to-image neural network to generate an image, in this case the author is also conditioning the model on a sketch to guide the generation process.
Okay. Now I'm starting to wonder if folks who worry about AI taking over are onto something. Well, not really... yet. But color me absolutely flabbergasted.
This has been flabbergasting a lot of us. I have been playing with these text to image models for about a month and I still cannot believe it.
Try for yourself a bit. Here’s my current favorite interface to Stable Diffusion. Give it a little sketch, then go wild with the prompt description. Try different style descriptions like oil painting or comic book.
Thanks! I'm gonna try it out. First, though, I think I'm going to add an exorcist to my contacts list. This is honestly the closest thing to magic I've ever encountered.