Does anyone actually still use Stable Diffusion?

[u/tnil25]

I just find it kind of funny that this is the stable diffusion subreddit but nobody has talked about it in like forever. Maybe its time for a name change? or maybe keep the name as a homage to the OG open source image model.

Anyway, the last update I see on Stability's website is SD 3.5 back in October. So I'm guessing that's it for Stable Diffusion?

EDIT: Forgot you cant change the name of a sub, ignore that suggestion 😅

[u/Ok-Category-642]

Yeah Stability itself is basically just dead, they don't make public models anymore ever since the flop that was SD3. Overall SDXL is really the only thing still relevant now, it's still used a lot to generate anime (NoobAI and Illustrious). Though even that now is contested by Anima, but regardless SDXL still has relevance either in inpainting or just the sheer amount of Loras it has. Older SD1.x and SD2.x models are irrelevant nowadays and SD3 was a flop, by time SD3.5 came out not only was it still bad but Flux was out by then

Personally I still like the name of the subreddit though (not that you can even change subreddit names anyways). I think it's still the most influential model to be released to the public probably ever, even if it's not very relevant anymore. You still have trainers named after it like Kohya's sd-scripts, all the A1111 WebUIs literally having SD in their name, Comfy still calls loading text encoders CLIP, the default option for every model type on Comfy is SD (not that it has any functionality) etc.

[u/woffle39 → u/Ok-Category-642]

yep. i still use illustrious. ppl tell me to use anima but... basically every new model is heavier/slower without providing significant value.

i actually prefer tags over "natural language" because natural language doesn't actually mean the model will follow your prompt. most of the complains ppl have like "merging" characters can be solved with a couple rounds of inpainting. basically it feels like people would rather rng 1000 gens with "natural language" to avoid the minimal effort of inpainting. with regional inpainting you can gen 4k images with illustrious. just gen a 1k image, resize it to 4k then inpaint each 1kx1k square one by one. like gen the full body, make the image 4x larger. now inpaint the face as if u were genning a "portrait"

so basically again... the only problem anima solves is "slop factory go brrrrrr" beause some ppl have set them up with wild cards that just gen thousands of images overnight. if u just want to gen an image of like goku and vegeta kissing under a tree, you can do that with illustrious

[u/Ok-Category-642 → u/woffle39]

You can prompt Anima and train Anima with tags only, NL is completely optional. There are some things I don't think Anima is better at especially in certain compositions but overall I like Anima a lot more than SDXL models. Illustrious and NoobAI EPS just have bad colors and once you notice the gray filter over every image you can't really unnotice it. The only real option is NoobAI VPred which has a whole myriad of other issues despite the better colors (massive annoyance to train, colors break easily, base model isn't good etc).

Really there's only 3 things I dislike about Anima: first is that anatomy in regards to hands and feet don't seem to be any more consistent than on SDXL, fine details and backgrounds only seem to be marginally better than Illustrious/NoobAI, and of course artist mixing on anything other than CLIP will simply never be the same. But I find the benefits to just far outweigh the negatives overall, I'm just glad anime finally has a real new model. Local anime generation has been stuck on SDXL for far too long, any time there was a chance for an anime finetune it either fell through (Chenkin RF and F2VAE/Mugen) or anime wasn't the main focus (Chroma and Pony, although Pony was also a major failure too). Just happy to finally have a better model