This is a question which bothers me about any AI image generation, but here people are focused on doing humans so I feel it's a good place to ask as with humans it hits harder:
Let's assume I download a recommended setup and I'm a total noob sitting down to generate from a prompt. How many misshapen, badly generated disturbing chaos mutants from beyond reality do I need to see before the AIs return a somewhat satisfying result? Is an "unsuccessful image" just a person with a blurred face or somewhat off fingers, or are we talking about full-blown body horror?
Since no one has answered yet I'll chime in with my experience using the Stablediffusion thing with all the 111's in it a few months ago.
It was super easy to use. I would set a prompt like "25 year old woman nude at the beach. Blonde hair blue eyes, thin small perky breasts, shaved pubic area" and run usually 10 batches of 5 images each. It would take 5-10 minutes usually, I have a 1080 TI, and I'd probably get 5-10 ""good" images and the rest would be trash. Some would have weird extra arms or be snake people with weird torsos. The most common issue I would have would be nipple and vulva placement, it can be weird sometimes. Not uncommon to have extra or no nipples, or extra breasts. Lots of barbie type pubic areas would show up.
I think part of my issue might have been the HD upscaling I was using, as I would see a quick glance of the initial render but by the time it upscaled it went funky.
I honestly just chocked it up to my lack of technical knowledge and possibly bad prompt writing.
However I do feel it was incredibly easy to generate at least some decent stuff for someone that has no coding experience or anything.
Thanks! The thing which bothers me isn't difficulty, rather how much of the painful distorted surrealism do I need to experience before getting something decent. You say you got 5-10 good images out of 50, but are the rest utter body horror or just odd limb or (as you write) awkward details? I can add I do freak out at the sight of the famous AI fingers if they are very bad tangled spaghetti of flesh.