At the start of August, Black Forest Labs launched Flux - a new image generation model. Playing with it for the last few weeks, it’s pretty great - especially if you can run it locally for maximum tweakability. Being able to prompt without a lot of arcane directions (eg high definition, 8K, good hands, masterpiece, high quality etc) and get a good result means much faster iteration and more experimentation. Both of which are critical for pushing boundaries and tool adoption.
Now we’re a month in, we’re starting to get fine tuned models (LoRAs - Low Rank Adapters) from the community that allow you to force the generated images in a particular direction beyond what the text prompt will do naturally.
So for example, you can take a LoRA trained on porcelain objects and apply it to pop culture heroes. These were quick to produce and without any clean up - which speaks to how impressive Flux is as a step up from the original Stable Diffusion and newer SDXL models.
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The next few months are going to be interesting, as the full weight of community creators starts experimenting with these new image generation capabilities.