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arthurcolle
This is awesome. It is funny how humans pop up in images before they are "created" in Genesis though.
ghub-mmulet
Yeah but are they naked? Because I spent a lot of time trying to get naked people out of Genesis!
cercatrova
But...they were made naked, as most artists depict them. Why did you decide not to make them so?
ghub-mmulet
Hey, I illustrated all 31,102 verses of the Bible with Stable Diffusion. I wrote a blog post about it on the site, but it's aimed at a non-technical audience. So I can go over the technical stuff here.

So, I started this almost as soon as Stable Diffusion was released to the public, on a single 3090ti. With revisions, it took about 42 hours of compute time, which was about $5 worth of electrity where I live. $5 for 31,102 pictures seems like a good deal to me! Doing the math, if I had done this project with DallE-2 it would have been at least $4000, so even if you factor in the price of the GPU, cpu, monitor, and keyboard, I would still come out ahead.

I really did not like the NSFW filter that Stable Diffusion ships with, too many false-positives, so I reviewed each and every picture by hand. I built a quick c++ program with SDL and dearImgui, to toggle through each picture with really fast keyboard shortcuts. Despite all that, I developed some repetitive stress pains from doing all that, and that's never fun.

The site is a static site hosted on Cloudflare pages and Cloudflare R2, which I have never used before (I'm usually an AWS guy). They attracted me with their "no egress fees" slogan, (which are usually an annoyingly large chunk of change), so I thought I'd give it a shot. The dev experience was pretty easy to be honest. But if things go south later, I'll write a nasty blog post about it or something.

A lot of the javascript was written by Github Copilot, and even some of the blog post (all the jokes were by me)!

Ethically, I think this project is in the clear because I only take "inspiration" from Renaissance art, which has been in the public domain for a long long time.

stagas
This is amazing. Other books as well? Any book!
atum47
Some of these are pretty good. I'm impressed.
EADGBE
I’d be interested in the differences AI interprets from the different translations. Too bad they don’t allow you to specify. (Or say which one they use up front)
Breza
It uses the KJV. My go-to translation is the NIV, but the KJV is the most historic and has some of the most colorful language. I am curious how some of the images would look if you used The Message.
didgeoridoo
Has anyone tried this with Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri datalinks quotes yet?
jkic47
Really impressive pictures. might I suggest thr option to purchase them at different price points?
Breza
Absolutely amazing work!