Alternate reality where AI image/video generation of 2025 was depicted in the 70’s..

https://redd.it/1oevsax
@rStableDiffusion

Anyone else hate the new ComfyUI Login junk as much as me?

The way they are trying to turn the UI into a service is very off-putting to me. The new toolbar with the ever-present nag to login (starting with comfyui-frontend v 1.30.1 or so?) is like having a burr in my sock. The last freaking thing I want to do is phone home to Comfy or anyone else while doing offline gen.

Honestly, I now feel like it would be prudent to exhaustively search their code for needless data leakage and maybe start a privacy-focused fork whose only purpose is to combat and mitigate their changes. Am I overreacting, or do others also feel this way?

https://redd.it/1of0emr
@rStableDiffusion

Wan Animate - Tutorial & Workflow for full character swapping and face swapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYi_GsTV9A&lc=UgyDD6S-5dgKtXSQ3B14AaABAg

https://redd.it/1of9jk4
@rStableDiffusion

What is the best Anime Upscaler?

I am looking for the best Upscaler for watching Anime. I want to watch Rascal Does not Dream series, and was about to use Real-ESRGAN but its about 2 years old. What is the most best, and popular (ease of use) upscaler for anime?

https://redd.it/1ofcvgv
@rStableDiffusion

Wan 2.2 T2I speed up settings?

I'm loving the output of wan 2.2 fp8 for static images.

I'm using a standard workflow with the lightning loras. 8 steps split equally between the 2 samplers gets me about 4 minutes per image on a 12GB 4080 at a 1024x512 res which makes it hard to iterate.

as I'm only interested in static images I'm a bit lost as to what are the latest settings/workflows to try speed up the generation?

https://redd.it/1ofbl9n
@rStableDiffusion