Design a Text-to-Image Service

Know the Vocabulary

This lesson uses the terms below many times. Read them once now, and come back here when a later section needs one.

• Text-to-image service: A product where a user types a short text and gets back images that match it.
• Prompt: The text the user types, such as "a lighthouse in a storm, oil painting."
• Diffusion model: The kind of model most image services use. It starts from random noise and turns it into a picture, a little at a time.
• Denoising step: One pass of the diffusion model over the picture