Canva is also turning to text-to-image tech

You can now use a well-known AI model to create images within the design platform

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Popular design platform Canva is debuting a text-to-image AI tool. The company began testing the feature in September and is now making it fully available to its 100 million user base.

Here are some key points:

• The tool is based on Stable Diffusion; the well-known open-source, deep learning text-to-image generator.

• You can use such for free, even with the basic version of Canva.

• Users can report newly generated images they find explicit and/or biased.

Of course, Canva is not the only creative platform to turn to text-to-image models (e.g. Microsoft Designer utilizing DALL-E) yet its ubiquity could be a great boost for the technology.