When PULSE upscaling in Stable Diffusion caused odd blocky pixels and the alternate ESRGAN pipeline that produced clean high-res images
In the world of AI-generated imagery, Stable Diffusion has emerged as a powerful tool for artists, developers, and content creators. But when it comes to enhancing those generated images to larger resolutions, not all upscaling methods are created equal. One specific method—PULSE upscaling—once promised high-quality enhancements but instead left users puzzled with strange artifacts and …