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For sure, and even training is very doable on consumer hardware these days. Techniques like Dreambooth and LoRA have dramatically lowered the compute cost of finetuning large models on specific concepts. A recent GPU can train Stable Diffusion models on a concept using LoRA in < 30 minutes.

My 2 year old gaming laptop runs stablediffusion just fine. Only having a gtx 1660 ti 6gb it's a little at the limit of what will run it though.

Stable Diffusion runs really well on M1 GPU.