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I've got the barebones of a service running on top of Stable Diffusion XL. I can cheaply run image generations at 1024x1024. And of course there's a limit to how fast I can generate them given the request queue and limited GPUs, but the service is cheap enough that I'm happy to run it out of pocket for now.
Let me know your thoughts, I hope you enjoy the service!
Is this issue that SDXL needs more fine tuning for it to be useful and it will be better than SD1.5 once it is?
No, its that SDXL is better than SD1.5 right now, but some SD1.5-derived-checkpoints are still better than base SDXL, at least foe their focal use cases. There are already a bunch of SDXL-derived checkpoints, but obviously not as much effort yet into them as SD1.5 (though a lot more being pumped out than ever happened for SD2.x).
(Also, while I think some of the forks do, base stable-diffusion-web-ui doesn’t have a built-in workflow that uses the SDXL refiner model, to get full SDXL effect you have to generate with the base model and separately do img2img with the refiner model.)