DiffusionLab

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

Permanent collection · 9473 works · free to use

What the machines saw.

Stable Diffusion 1.5, on hardware old enough that it can do nothing 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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Commissions take about a minute and need no account.

A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade. Work 5854. 512 × 768, seed 2072552307.

Selected works

Photography of post modern golf fashion, alien monument, 1970s, country club, resort style, kodachrome, cinematic. Work 364.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 9488.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9487.
A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle. Work 9486.
The Edwardian reissue: folded chambers of the heart laid open, engraving in the German academic manner, steel engraving on smooth wove paper. Work 9485.
A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash. Work 9484.
A mint-uniformed pen nibs laid out in a row, the week the originals were locked up, two colour plate in oxblood and cream, dust turning slowly in a high shaft. Work 9483.
A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 9482.
An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board. Work 9481.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9480.

From the archive

A baked alaska made of snail race, herringbone, Ming vase, through a windscreen. Work 2413.
An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers. Work 4603.
An avalanche seen from a chairlift in the style of a brace and bit, fairy lights. Work 2394.
A hand-hauled sastrugi cut into hard shapes, 1903, pencil caption in a neat hand. Work 7677.
A tapering tzitzimitl under a cedar on a lawn, the early Victorian years, the beach is a short walk, Neue Sachlichkeit plant study. Work 5861.