The Stable Diffusion Dictionary: Every Term You'll Hit in Your First Month

I've been building AI image generation workflows for a while now. Training LoRAs, comparing checkpoints, wiring up ComfyUI nodes. And the whole time, I kept needing to look up the same terms. What's the difference between CFG and Denoise? Why does everyone say "safetensors"? What even is a VAE? So I wrote the dictionary I wish existed when I started. This isn't a tutorial. It's a reference . Bookmark it. Come back when you hit a term you don't recognize. Everything is organized in layers — from "I just heard about Stable Diffusion" to "I'm training my own models." Layer 1: The Absolute Basics Stable Diffusion (SD) An open-source AI image generator . You type a description of what you want, and it creates an image. Similar to MidJourney or DALL-E, but with one massive difference: you run it on your own machine . No subscription. No content filters. No one else's rules. Prompt The text instruction you give the AI. The more detailed, the better. Prompt: "a Japanese woman in a white dress