One alternative would be running SD locally, but we are never getting the old model mix… some two years ago someone asked if it was SD 1.5 to which the dev said yes, but that was a long time ago. Also it was said that it uses a different model for each specific genre of prompt and those are basically the top models on civitai, which is likely true as over one year ago the anime model would get that generic look often and the latest one of the old perchance was often sharp and with better hand generation when compared to that.

One other downside of the new model I don’t see anyone talking about is that it cannot replicate faces of known people, which was a trick in the old one to mix famous people to reach a desired face shape. Ironically enough, this is the most needed now, as the new one can only generate people with the average e-girl face.

The new one feels too artsy generic like Dall-e, Midjourney or a dozen others out there. I loved the old one for it’s unique simplicity, I think we lost something special