> The quality for SD is no where near the clear leaders.

It absolutely is. Moreover, the tools built on top of SD (and now Flux) are superior to any commercial vertical.

The second-place companies and research labs will continue to release their models as open source, which will cause further atrophy to the value of building a foundation model. Value will accrue in the product, as has always been the case.

SD will also generate what I tell it, unlike the corporate models that have all kinds of “safeguards”.

You must be stuck at SDXL for posting something absolutely and verifiably false as the sentence above.