[aenvoker]

SD can be better than MJ if you dig really deep into the open source nature of SD. Open source UI and plugins, community-made models of many types and uses, tribal knowledge of techniques... It’s very complicated and requires a lot of searching, reading, installing and experimentation.

The base tech and models straight from Stability AI give pretty crap results if you just plainly describe a scene.

MJ in contrast provides a great results out of the box. Say anything, get beautiful picture of something. From there you need to figure out specifically what you actually want.

However, if you really want to iterate on just specific details of a scene with a specific layout, with specific characters in specific poses, with specific style elements, MJ is too chaotic to control at that fine detail. So to is SD out of the box. But, if you take the time to learn how to install and use ControlNet, highly specialized models/LORA/textual inversions from wildly varying sources, in-painting, latent upscaling, hook up Photoshop/Krita/Blender integrations, ect, ect… you can eventually get very precise control of SD’s results. And, then new better tech releases next week! :D

[pmoriarty]

This kind of reminds me of a VSCode vs emacs comparison.