I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this, but ever since the update to what I understand is Flux.1 from SD, the generator has been horrible about defaulting human figures to the anime-inspired, digital painting style that people generally refer to as AI slop, regardless of your style inputs.

Previously, if you specified “middle-aged women, acrlyic paining” in your prompt - with “digital painting, anime style” in your negative - that’s what you’d get: a woman who looks between 40 - 50, with a corresponding body type, rendered in a fairly true to life acrylic style. Now the same prompt will get you a My Hero Academia character who looks about 12 and drawn with Clip Studio.

While () still seems to work for emphasis, it also seems we’ve lost negative prompting, as another user pointed out in a previous thread. If you could prompt things like, “not a teenager, not anime” etc., that wouldn’t be so bad … except that now, it seems that including either or those terms will add it to your prompt because it doesn’t seem to acknowledge “not” or “no”.

Is anyone else experiencing this, and know of a viable workaround?

Thanks.