And not just any old M1 Mac. Last week I got it running on my 2021 8GB M1 MacBook Air and it's slow. Images at 512x512 with 10 steps take between 7 and 10 minutes to generate.
It's the only thing I do that hits performance limitations on the 8GB machine so there's no regrets on that score, but with the way this stuff is progressing 16GB+ is a realistic minimum for comfortable use.
I've just been following the steps here with default settings: https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac, but maybe there's a better way to run it at this point?
It's an electron app and you can either download it with the weights, or without and add them separately.
Using that it just took slightly over 5 minutes on my 8GB so it's a little bit quicker for me. Maybe the code has improved since I cloned stuff over a week ago, or maybe it's just different system resources when it is run. Either way, it looks like the easy way I've been waiting for.
Edit: It is however missing the CFG setting.