Regional control (especially ControlNet) was a thing before the current models got popular.
Which is precisely why I hate the fact that the general lazy models are the only ones that are popular. Where the hell is the tooling to do fancy controlled geometric transforms plus style transfer in a controlled manner, etc? It’s all just “write a prompt and run it a hundred times”, nobody want to put human effort into the system anymore
Regional control (especially ControlNet) was a thing before the current models got popular.
Which is precisely why I hate the fact that the general lazy models are the only ones that are popular. Where the hell is the tooling to do fancy controlled geometric transforms plus style transfer in a controlled manner, etc? It’s all just “write a prompt and run it a hundred times”, nobody want to put human effort into the system anymore