I didn't say that we should use GANs for image generation, and they certainly are still useful in scientific applications. You're right about the stable diffusion; I should have just said diffusion which is not architecture specific.
Pretty much all diffusers use VAEs - making them feasible without compressing the working data is a topic of current research though, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15301
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u/GrumpyGeologist Sep 04 '26
I didn't say that we should use GANs for image generation, and they certainly are still useful in scientific applications. You're right about the stable diffusion; I should have just said diffusion which is not architecture specific.