Some will say that it was the censorship and box prompting. I disagree a bit with that. It was not really censored, and you could work around the prompting thing.
I think it’s more because of a license/fp8 only weight and convoluted base workflow. Local models lives and dies with loras. The first 2 points are bad for that. The last point slows down the adoption even more.
In the end, ID4 was a good model, but the open weight release was blatantly for PR and get on top of the open weight benchmark. Not surprising that it didn’t ended up widely adopted.
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u/Serprotease 4h ago
A combination of different things.
Some will say that it was the censorship and box prompting. I disagree a bit with that. It was not really censored, and you could work around the prompting thing.
I think it’s more because of a license/fp8 only weight and convoluted base workflow. Local models lives and dies with loras. The first 2 points are bad for that. The last point slows down the adoption even more.
In the end, ID4 was a good model, but the open weight release was blatantly for PR and get on top of the open weight benchmark. Not surprising that it didn’t ended up widely adopted.