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Exploring Stable Diffusion XL
After the not-very-successful Stable Diffusion 2.0 and Stable Diffusion 2.1, July 2023 saw the launch of Stability AI’s latest release, Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) [1]. I eagerly applied the model weights data as soon as registration was open. Both my tests and those conducted by the community indicate that SDXL has made significant strides forward. It now allows us to generate higher-quality images at increased resolutions, vastly outperforming the Stable Diffusion V1.5 base model. Another notable enhancement is the ability to use more intuitive “natural language” prompts to generate images, eliminating the need to cobble together a multitude of “words” to form a meaningful prompt. Furthermore, we can now generate ...
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