[baddash]

Out of curiosity, what are use cases/applications of this?

So what I know is that this generates images via browser rather than server. The only thing I can think of is not having to refresh the page in order to change an image or generate a new image. Which... hmm, well, that could mean websites whose visual design changes in real-time? And maybe changes in a way that would be functionally relevant/useful? That does seem pretty cool, although I'm not sure how useful Stable Diffusion is for generating UI components/visual aspects of a site.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

It's useful because it's expensive to generate these images en masse. It moves the compute cost to the client.

[ShamelessC]

What? The use case is to easily run it on your own computer. Without needing to be a programmer or install an application.

[asynchronous]

Just like what most web apps allow- quick applications in a sandboxed environment on almost every type of hardware

[lionkor]

Any hardware! As long as that hardware is overpowered for the job, so that the browser overhead is acceptable. Oh and it needs internet. Oh and it needs a reasonably large screen because padding and margins. Oh and it needs quite a bit of RAM to start. Maybe not any hardware.

[Eduard]

Privacy is a big plus for (purely) locally running models.

Sensitive prompts will not leak to some remote party.