A Conversation with Stable Diffusion about Bitcoin block hashes

Stable Diffusion, and other tools like it, are creepy. I am not so sure they aren't portals for demonic entities to enter the world and mess with us.

Nevertheless, I downloaded the source code and gave it some prompts.

Processing on first run M1 Mac mini, each image took 3-4 minutes to generate.

A friend wanted to see what the thing did when given Bitcoin block hashes. I grabbed the latest hash and ran it. I had not the slightest clue what I'd get, but the resulting image isn't too surprising.

python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "000000000000000000016e46e271f4e88c24261693ba1168635fa7051d49d1d0" --n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 --plms

It looks like an ancient script. It's in a grid. Ok.

My friend asked me to run it again, with the next hash in the chain, so I did.

python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "0000000000000000000700d2fe1efd0bae031f87e947ea47051e20d531bff985" --n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 --plms

My first thought seeing this image was, Ok the demon is depicting what it looks like for us to be asking it to generate images from block hashes.

Run it again, says my friend. So I did, with the next hash.

python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "0000000000000000000476ec60927c7d80368d2e781274f4964874541456f90a" --n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 --plms

Fin.

UPDATE: On closer inspection of the output logs, it appears this is the image given when the program determines that the generated image may be NSFW.