> I don't agree that produced images are mostly shitty, just visit that subreddit.
SD is definitely very good in the right hands, and it’s a little unfair to expect to be able to get instant good results without any skill. It’s honestly pretty crazy that we now have things like ChatGPT and SD – and people are already calling them crap because they don’t work perfectly and their productive use actually requires some skill!
But r/StableDiffusion, or any public gallery, is obviously one giant selection effect. 99.9% of attempts could be crap and the 0.1% would still be enough to fill a subreddit.
Sort by new and you will get the idea of crap that people post on a public forum. Default sorting only shows you the popular/better content.
To give you a general idea of what percentage can be good images: I recently made a lots of wallpapers to cycle through daily using SD. I found a good prompt, a good model, and let it generate bunch of images continuously for few hours.
None of the images were shitty (they were all random seeds), only images I discarded had artifacts I didn't like or couldn't keep my eyes away from. With SD you can't just expect to give a prompt "beautiful landscape" and expect it to give you a beautiful landscape. It won't. You shall get shitty images and might get a few pleasing ones. You must tune your prompt to get good results.
SD is definitely very good in the right hands, and it’s a little unfair to expect to be able to get instant good results without any skill. It’s honestly pretty crazy that we now have things like ChatGPT and SD – and people are already calling them crap because they don’t work perfectly and their productive use actually requires some skill!
But r/StableDiffusion, or any public gallery, is obviously one giant selection effect. 99.9% of attempts could be crap and the 0.1% would still be enough to fill a subreddit.