Personally I think the SD1.5 trade off, loss of general knowledge for surprisingly high quality images on consumer hardware, is worth it. It's fairly impressiv

Personally I think the SD1.5 trade off, loss of general knowledge for surprisingly high quality images on consumer hardware, is worth it. It's fairly impressive to me what the community has made possible with SD1.5. Sure on a vanilla task something like Dall-E 2 generally performs better, but with some tweaking you can easily beat out Dall-E on a home gaming PC. The fact that you can fine-tune SD1.5 on a 4090 is incredible to me. Given how much powerful AI is locked behind fees and private APIs it's refreshing to see so much cool stuff coming out of the OSS world again. Best of all is it's not being driven exclusively by people with an ML background, but moreso curious amateurs. It really brings me back to a time when playing around with software/the web felt exciting.