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User criticizes new AI image edit models as worse than older versions

A user on Reddit's r/StableDiffusion community expressed frustration with recent image editing AI models, finding them to be of lower quality than older versions. The user tested several new models including Flux.3 Klein, Qwen 2.1, Fibo Image Edit 2.0, and p-H3-Image-Edit, deeming them ineffective for tasks like character swapping in videos. In contrast, older models like Qwen 2511 and Klein 9B performed significantly better, leading the user to question the perceived progress in image editing AI capabilities. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the actual progress and user perception of new AI image editing models.

RANK_REASON User opinion piece on AI model performance.

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User criticizes new AI image edit models as worse than older versions

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  1. r/StableDiffusion TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/DietAshamed2246 ·

    Why are all the newly released Image Edit models junk?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I was trying to test the new Viggle-Remake-Swap LoRA in MiniMax-H3. For this I needed to character swap in one of the frames of my source video clip (3.75s, 90 frames), so that the target video would have the new character in it. I went through a…