DiffusionLab

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

Permanent collection · 9829 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.
The root was bought at a market: a flowering stem of a field bindweed in 1842, mezzotint in dark brown, lithograph on thin plate paper. Work 9844.
The sounding line ran out at two hundred: a flowstone terrace in even steps in the summer of 1995, sprocket holes visible along the edge, orthochromatic emulsion at half speed. Work 9843.
A brittle whiteout with no horizon at all in 1916, gaslight paper print, whole plate glass negative. Work 9842.
A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 9841.
A googie spaceport, sectional schematic of a boiler, the corners came unstuck, tempera cracked in a fine net. Work 9840.
A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.
Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.
A figure between the slab and the sun, a late year of the survey, brutal contrast of black and pale, print struck to hold the sky white. Work 9836.

From the archive

Humming in B flat: a snowman on a hard shoulder, wedding invitation. Work 4455.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7567.
Award winning portrait of a cult leader, flowers, 1970s, cinematic, beautiful, concept art, perfect composition. Work 223.
A heavily annotated wasp as a debt collector in weather fit for ducks, Scythian gold, glint on a spoon, speed camera flash. Work 3332.
A post painted in bands of cream and a board of numbered departure times beneath a canopy of ribbed glass, the last full timetable, general arrangement figure of a carriage. Work 7353.