It’s unintuitive but I still like the 1.6 models - they just have more variety and seem more „creative“

Of course I have a battery of dozens of techniques and addons to improve the 1.6 models

What are some of the most helpful techniques and add-ons that you use?

Loras in general have been a game changer. I especially like the VantaBlack Loras.

Also controlnet is so useful.

I also generate 512x512 with 1.6 and then upscale to 1024 with iterative upscaling - adds a ton of detail. Then I can easily upscale to 4K.

If I do iterative upscale to 4K right away it takes like 20h on my m1. But that adds even more details.

And there are negative embeddings which are great eg badhandsv2

So those 4 have been the most impactful for me

As someone out of the loop, why?

Whatever they did to censor it broke its ability to generate SFW pictures of humans.

More likely to generate 7 armed nightmare fuel monsters than a bag of plutonium.

Slow and a lot censored