The consensus seems to be that the lack of open source SDXL anime fine tunes is simply due to laziness and lack of resources from the interested parties in the community. Datasets like from the boorus are already floating around online to train on. Always funny to see that furries are ahead of weeaboos in the war for the best open source nsfw generator
Well to be honest I don't really know what's the best furry SD XL model out there but recently this model has been released: https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0, it's probably far from the NovelAI checkpoint but I would be curious to know how it compares to the furry model you're talking about.
It’s an interesting example of a new technology that is inferior to the old one because the old one is superior in important ways (speed, ease of manipulation, and established toolsets).
Last I heard, everyone was struggling to fine tune SDXL on furry art too. The only community fine tunes that seem to have succeeded are ones aimed at taking things it was already designed to generate and trained on and making it actually good at those, or improving the aesthetics of its output.
That's mildly surprising, given how large and well tagged e621 in particular is. Though I assume most of the major furry art hosts are blocking scraping by this point, given how divisive GenAI is?
