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An AI Program That Makes Unreal Pokémon Images from Text

randerson112358
4 min readSep 30, 2022

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Art/Images Created by Artificial Intelligence

Image created by AI Stable Diffusion Model using the text “Mewtwo”

In this article, I will show you all an easy-to-use python program to create Pokémon images through text! This program uses Stable Diffusion which is a text-to-image AI model that was developed and released by Stability AI and other collaborators like Patrick Esser from Runway and Robin Rombach from the Machine Vision & Learning research group at LMU Munich.

What’s A Pokémon?

For those of you that don’t know what Pokémon is, Pokémon is an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters which is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company. The franchise focuses on a fictional world mainly revolved around fictional animals called Pokémon. In this world some of the people are called Pokémon Trainers and they go around the world capturing and training these Pokémon. There are currently 920 Pokémon species; originally there were 151 Pokémon (counting Mew).

Image Source: Who’s That Pokemon / Charizard — YouTube

What’s AI?

AI is short for Artificial Intelligence (the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as

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