Announcing the upcoming deprecation of fine-tuned SDXL models and SDXL 0.9

Announcing the upcoming deprecation of fine-tuned SDXL models and SDXL 0.9

Some features on NightCafe are powered by Stability AI, the creators of Stable Diffusion. Stability AI have announced that they're deprecating the following features:
  1. Fine-tuning for SDXL will be deprecated on October 18
  2. Stable Diffusion XL v0.9 will be deprecated on October 11
Unfortunately we've been given very little notice about these major changes.

What this means for NightCafe users:

  1. SDXL v0.9 will be removed on October 11
  2. SDXL and Stable Diffusion 1.5 fine-tuning has been disabled
  3. Existing fine-tuned SDXL models will become unusable on October 18
  4. Existing fine-tuned Stable Diffusion 1.5 models will continue to work
  5. Creations that used fine-tuned models will be unaffected
  6. Datasets will be unaffected (so it's pretty simple to use the same dataset to train a Flux model)

Compensation for model creators

This news means that anyone who has fine-tuned an SDXL model will lose access to that model. We've been attempting to convince Stability AI for a long time (long before they made this announcement) to give us access to the fine-tuned model (LoRA) files so that we can continue to support existing LoRAs on another provider, but they've refused.

Thankfully, Flux fine-tuning is now here and is better than SDXL fine-tuning ever was (albeit more expensive due to the larger base model), especially for faces. To compensate users who have created a fine-tuned model, we'll be refunding the cost of any SDXL fine-tuned models created or used in the last 3 months at a rate of 2 fine-tuning credits per model. If you've created a fine-tuned SDXL model that has been used in the last 3 months, you will be refunded by Saturday the 12th of October. You will be notified when your refund has been processed.

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