Hey there!
I鈥檓 Jakob Stewart, a digital artist working with AI since the begin of stable diffusion.
This post is for new people who have no idea聽what Stable Diffusion is.
If you鈥檙e looking for more advanced material, check out my blog. I have everything you need to know there.
Click the links below to go directly to the section.
- What is an AI Image Generator?
- Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and DALL-E
- How To Use It For Free?
- Improving Your Results with Stable Diffusion
- Creating AI Influencers or AI Girlfriends with Stable Diffusion
What is an AI Image Generator?
AI image generators are programs that create images聽based on what you type (Text Prompts), using artificial intelligence algorithms to understand and generate the images.

There are many AI Image Generators, and the most famous ones are:
- Stable Diffusion
- DALL-E
- MidJourney
- Flux, the newer open one that most local users moved to for photorealism
What is Stable Diffusion and How It Differs from MidJourney and DALL-E?
I like Stable Diffusion because you can modify and create your own models, and it鈥檚 open source.
Unl****ike聽MidJourney and DALL-E, Stable Diffusion is:
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Uncensored: Does not have strict filters, allowing users to create a wide range of content, including NSFW AI images.
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Open Source: Being open source means the code is publicly available, allowing anyone to modify and improve it.
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Highly Customizable: With Stable Diffusion, you can customize models聽to fit your specific needs, whether it鈥檚 for artistic projects, content creation, or personal use.
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Free to Use: One of the biggest advantages is its聽free use. (You can run it on your local machine or online platforms for free.)
Also, the Stable Diffusion community created Civitai, where you can download聽many checkpoints and LoRAs聽to create more realistic images:
Civitai works differently today. Since 2025 the main site keeps only safe content, the adult side lives on a separate domain, and models of real people were taken down after pressure from the payment companies. I read both sets of rules here: Civitai Red vs Civitai.com.
Which Stable Diffusion Should You Use?
Stable Diffusion is a family of models. In 2026, two names cover almost everything people run at home:
- SDXL: the one with the biggest library of community checkpoints and LoRAs. It runs fine on an 8 GB graphics card, and with some tweaking on 6 GB.
- Stable Diffusion 3.5: the newer flagship from Stability AI, better at following long prompts and at writing text inside the image.
Start with SDXL. Almost every tutorial, checkpoint and LoRA you will find, including mine, was made for it.
Getting Started with Stable Diffusion for Free
Want to run Stable Diffusion online without installing anything?
Here are links for three options:
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NSFW AI Tools:聽User-friendly online interfaces to generate NSFW AI images, many are free or at least have a free trial.
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Fooocus Colab:聽Run the easiest version of Stable Diffusion聽online for FREE. It is still the simplest way in, but the project now gets bug fixes only and never got support for the newer models.
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Run Locally:聽Install it using Stability Matrix, the easiest way聽of installing any version聽of Stable Diffusion.
Improving Your Results with Stable Diffusion
To get better results with Stable Diffusion, you鈥檒l need to use additional tools like checkpoints and LoRAs.
These models help generate images with more customization options, styles, objects, and scenarios.
Check this article I wrote about Checkpoints and LoRAs聽to understand what I鈥檓 talking about.
Creating AI Influencers or AI Girlfriends with Stable Diffusion






You can make AI influencers with Stable Diffusion. It鈥檚 the main tool I use, and most other AI influencer creators use it too, or platforms based on it.
For a detailed guide about AI Influencers, please read my article: AI Influencer聽in 3 Steps.
You can also use online tools聽like NectarAI聽or similar platforms to create AI influencers聽or AI
girlfriends; these tools have very user-friendly interfaces聽and are highly immersive.
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