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Comment by Ensorceled | Hacker News Reader

"I can't afford real images of real people and can't tell these images are shit, but you can rest assured that I didn't take any short cuts on the product!"

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Real images of real people, although slightly unrealistically racially diverse and very unrealistically attractive, and absolutely not working for the company they're standing around a laptop for... is that really any better? Look at us, we're so serious we can licence shutterstock garbage?

I swear Microsoft is half the market for this. I can't remember the last time I saw them for an image which did not give off that exact vibe in over a decade.

It's pure slop, of the non-AI kind.

I can afford them, I just don't need to anymore. My use cases for stock photos are websites, marketing, landing pages etc. The SOTA image models are sufficient for my use cases and my customers don't care. Infact, they are happy with the quality of AI generated stock photos and appreciate the fast turnaround and lower cost.

Which models are SOTA as of now?

In terms of realism, Flux is leading the pack currently

I would say Flux leads the pack in COHERENCY not necessarily in terms of sheer realism. (See the Flux chin).

SDXL + LoRA easily eclipses Flux in realism, but prompting is 100% more difficult for complex scenes.

Over Midjourney?

Yeah, Midjourney tends to create sci-fi/enhanced looking humans. Flux creates photorealistic.

Interesting! What's the best way to check it out? Via API?

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