Just like Dall-E & Midjourney, Stable Diffusion is rising in popularity because it's free and open source. As we know, with Dall-E & Midjourney we don't the access to the source code, but now with Stable Diffusion where the model weights and the full source code

Mr. Jason M. Allen entered his AI-generated artwork into Colorado State Fair’s art competition and won first place in the Digital Arts/Digitally Manipulated Photography category. The situation is generating fiery debate about AI and art on Twitter. His piece of art “Théâtre d’Opéra Spatial” is generated with