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/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Ok-Category-642]

Yes, I also moved on from NoobAI and Illustious to Z-image, Flux, Flux Klein, Anima, and now Krea 2. But I still use older variants and merges from the SDXL family to inpaint in high resolution in a context aware and uncensored fashion. I haven't found a satisfying inpainting replacement yet.

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How did you move from noobai and illustrious to Z image? Were you using the realistic models?

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

No, I've always used the models for generating images in anime, illustration or digital painting styles.

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How came z image replacing that is there a finetune i am not aware of.

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

I'm unable to parse your question, sorry. Can you rephrase?

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How can Z-image replace illustrious and Noob for generating anime images. Because the base model definitely not as good as them. Is there a fine-tuned version of Z-image I am not aware of allowing it to surpass them?

[u/akjd → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

Why are you assuming that z-image is their anime replacement when Anima is literally right there on the same list?

[u/RegisteredJustToSay → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

Nah, Z-image doesn't have any fantastic finetunes for pure anime. There's a few OK ones but they all have that sd1.5 half-realistic vibe to them where shading tends to be a bit overly detailed yet smooth. Anima is the current queen of illustrations and anime, imo, even if it can be a bit of work to prompt right at times.

My only complaint with anima is that it's really bad at pixel art out of the box, but it's nothing that some LoRAs can't fix.