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    Update: improved responsiveness to natural language prompts and conventional SDXL prompting style.

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    I created a custom GPT4 for making easier SFW prompts! Check it out below!
    https://chat.openai.com/g/g-ILX4kHo1I-pony-diffusion-guide


    Pony requires a specific prompting syle, but I've jiggered it a bit so it doesn't really need it all the time, a mixture of natural language and tags should work much better now:

    Rating_SFW/moderate/questionable/NSFW/Explicit

    Add these to positive and negatives and it restricts it more generally to the types of content that you would like to see.

    Also: "IRL" = realism.

    And now you can combine score tags with specific concepts. For example: Score_9_eyes, Score_8_crowd, score_7_skin_texture, etc etc. Some things don't work, but when they do its a nice bonus!

    You don't have to specify "Source_IRL/Source_anime" etc. just naming the style should be enough to push it in the right directions.

    Usually I would add Rating_Explicit, questionable to the negative and SFW/Moderate to the positive at the same time. And this keeps things from getting to messy.

    Also This model is very odd in terms of prompt weighting. You can use weights of up to 4.0 strength without making the images entirely awful.

    So experiment with different weightings when it does not listen to you :D

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    Ponydiffusion was trained extremely thoroughly. Too thoroughly in fact. The lack of captionless training, or "caption dropout" is extremely evident and the consequences of such are far-reaching into the models use cases. Essentially limiting the model to only the longest and most complex prompting styles and/or raising the CFG levels to incomprehensible values to compensate.

    I will attempt to rectify this issue in the model branch and make something effectively more useful than the existing main model. It won't be "better" per se. But it should be usable flexibly in a multitude of use cases.

    Believe it or not I work incredibly quickly at merging models when I have feedback to work with.

    This is a merge of PonyDiffusion, DreamState, Duc Haiten's Journey, AnimagineXL, Imperfect XL and Yamer's perfect design. Now merged with Autism Mix. Prony2.5D, Pyros NSFW 0.5 and ImperfectXL.

    It does most of what PonyDiffusion does, but without the crazy ass "Pony Tags." It's more like an actual normal model, that does NSFW things, with ponies.

    Some concepts are not working compared to PonyDiff, but this is a WIP and I will work towards getting most of them functional over time, without losing quality.

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    DioxideFeb 26, 2024· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    People already call Pony Diffusion "PonyXL" so you might want to change this model's name to reduce confusion.

    HalesiteFeb 26, 2024· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    Maybe consider not labeling this PonyXL? That is how most people refer to the PonyDiffusionXL model, and seems like an odd choice not to differentiate the two.

    Triple_Headed_Monkey
    Author
    Feb 26, 2024

    Idk, it seems like it fits quite well to me. PonyDiffusion, without the confusion in prompting. A simplified PonyDiffusion.

    But, I could potentially change it if it becomes an issue. I just don't see it being one unless the PonyDiffusion model changes prompting styles significantly.

    I was going to call it "Soft Pony XL" But the logos didn't come out as well :P

    2197456Feb 26, 2024· 12 reactions
    CivitAI

    Edit: I left the review below about the first version. It looks like the creator's been making a lot of improvements since then and has also taken the feedback about the name.

    I think the author should rename this model to avoid disparaging the creators of the actual Pony Diffusion model.

    As a comparison, this model is far inferior to Pony Diffusion, Autism Mix, and the other PonyXL forks. This model lost PonyXL's ability to do male anatomy entirely, and does other things poorly as well.

    It would be bad for people to download this one and get confused because they thought it was the original. Appreciate the idea of this but it's not there yet.

    Triple_Headed_Monkey
    Author
    Mar 1, 2024

    Thanks for the feedback. I found autism mix to be a very useful component in tweaking the model to a more desirable output. Very helpful.

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    2/26/2024
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    5/13/2026
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