Stable Diffusion
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
3warn against
Nov 10, 2025first mention
Oct 24, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Stable Diffusion is much easier to deal with in that regard”
Caveats and dissent
“Claude and Stable Diffusion utterly decimate nuance in a thermonuclear blast”
“formed mainly from using free early versions of stuff like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion”
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“Wrong AI model (Stable Diffusion was overkill)”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“The satellite tiles were generated by generate_sat_ai.py using Stable Diffusion img2img.”
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“i used to use stable diffusion and automatic1111 way back”
“Claude and Stable Diffusion utterly decimate nuance in a thermonuclear blast”
“changing pictures generated locally with stable diffusion”
“ComfyUI, Flux, Wan 2.1, Stable Diffusion”
“It generates an image using stable diffusion”
“I think the first time I saw this was the Stable Diffusion controlnet”
“https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/18aoqs0/complete_qr_monster_v2_workflow/”
“formed mainly from using free early versions of stuff like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion”
“You’ll need to learn how to use Stable Diffusion and some of the common frontends like ComfyUI and Automatic1111”
“Stable Diffusion is much easier to deal with in that regard”
“like we used to do with Stable Diffusion years ago”
“trick Stable Diffusion into generating spectrograms”
“I made a DeluxePaint/Amiga LORA you can use with Stable Diffusion/FLUX”
“built in local image generation (using stable diffusion and flux schnell)”
“Vision and video diffusion models: Flux, Wan 2.1, Stable Diffusion”
“Image gen is Stable Diffusion running on the NPU where available.”
“Stable diffusion does this quite handily.”
“projects these agent states directly into Stable Diffusion latents”
“my experiments with SD suggested the energy cost even for a full generation is only $0.0001/image”
“productizing an image diffusion model (Stable Diffusion 1.5 when I started)”
“Wrong AI model (Stable Diffusion was overkill)”
“Stable Diffusion -> Pixel Art pipeline”
“stable-diffusion generated the images”