Are you keeping the previous model as well.

As per my post, https://lemmy.world/post/42586080 The image generator was changed around early 2025 without a reason why. Did you get spooked about what people are generating?

Why not keep the old image generator along with the new one. If people like one more over the other, then the other one won't get as much traffic and so keeping both doesn't necessarily mean double the load.

I have been grateful for this free service. But providing a free service is not sacred. People should be able to give feedback on changes.

SD - stable diffusion is what someone else said they used to use.

Why, then, when I visit: https://perchance.org/stable-diffusion-ai and try that I just get the same results as the other ones in use today? Can't get the images I use to be able to get up to early 2025.

That's what's not being answered: WHY was it changed?

Did they get spooked at what people were generating?

I think what should happen is that they continue to offer all of the previous versions as well as the new, that some people like.

I just think it's awful. I know I'm not the only one who loves to generate AI girl art - there are several perchance pages on it.

But the results now are just awful: they don't seem like the machine has actually had a hand in generating art, just a stock of photos. Grimy, distorted if you ask for certain preferances like curvyness, bland. Either just dull and grimy or high contrast stereotypical beauty: cheekbones, lips, freckles, curly fine hair, jewel like eyes. So narrow and dull. Frankenstein stuck together images. Before it seemed like the machine was actually rendering real art based on the prompt.

I don't think there is a problem in calling out something that is free as having faults. Why is a free service sacred? Sure whoever makes it wants to know that people enjoy it, find it useful and want to take on feedback.

I just really enjoyed creating girl art I found it really meditative and absorbing, a form of delightful escape. Here are some more I used to be able to create. They've been up on Instagram for half a year and no complaints, some likes - an audience of nearly 4K followers:

thank you. That's what the model was and what it was changed to.

But I wonder why the dev changed the model.

I've updated the question subject title, to also ask: "why?"

Because of that, if you can wait it out, it should improve sooner rather than later.

But it was fine back in 2024 up to the end of the year / early 2025!

If they'd kept it as is, then I wouldn't need to wait because they already had it working well!

like the purpose of this forum is specifically to criticize free things lol.

not the only purpose of the forum, but a purpose.

Does making something free mean that criticism isn't justified.

Remember, I thought the model was good up to late 2024/early 2025. So I have both praise (for how it was then) and criticism for how it is now.

Again, why was the AI image generation model changed around early 2025? (It was great before then and up to late 2024 - well for me anyway for the images I've shared in my original post above). I've added to the possible reasons:

• Somehow the devs thought it needed improving? - It didn’t!!!
• The devs got spooked at what people were generating?
• the model was too expensive
• the model wasn't being supported any more