Flux 2 Klein 9b also had anatomical issues as well, but this one feels practically lobotomized.
What the heck are they doing?
Is this fast/cheap at the pareto frontier? Doesn't really work if humans look deformed.
It’s bafflingly worse than other comparably sized ones: Qwen-Image 2.1 7B, Z-Image Turbo 6B which was released practically a year ago, even its own predecessor Flux 2 Klein 9b.
Even if we concede that the Klein variants are intended more as editor models, the results I've seen on Reddit aren't that impressive either.
I feel like they just handed their collective heads on a platter over to the team over at Krea especially since Krea 3 addresses the major limitation of Krea 2 which was strictly text-to-image only.
Safetymaxxing at the expense of benign output quality is sad to see.
European edit model cannot make it easy to nudify people… they lobotomize it, it’s trash, Mission Accomplished!
Another reason that China is pulling ahead daily. They can leave in some anatomy and not knee cap their own product, leave in IP, and give away the model so as to undercut API/credit sales of US and EU models.
Finally… the Neo Puritan death march is having a direct financial toll.