Astronaut horse is a series of open-ended collaborations between visual artists and a group of professional software engineers and machine learning researchers who began working with Stable Diffusion together at the Recurse Center in late 2022.
Stable Diffusion is a free and open-source alternative to image-generating AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney which remain private and for-profit. The tools developed for this project are similarly intended to be free for artists to use and help develop.
The name astronaut horse refers to the common AI-generated image of an astronaut riding a horse that often acts as a benchmark for the capabilities of generative image models.
To learn more about the project check out the links below. If you're interested in potentially collaborating feel free to reach out to me directly with some links to your work.
tombetthauser@gmail.com
artist collaborations
live application / tools
more on stable diffusion
astronaut riding a horse