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Early feedback seems mostly negative:
>From what I've seen so far, and from the tests I've done, it always seems to be performing worse than or at best equal to the Illustrious XL base, which isn't exactly a good sign.
>I've never been more disappointed with the release of a model in my entire life. So much wasted hype, just for subpar generations on an even worse on-site generation suite
>sigh I guess the issue here was Aura. Chroma is better and worth working with instead.
>Not even better than old SD1 models
>The model is a disaster, and if anyone gets the idea to show it in a native image comparison here, it will be deleted without comment!
>Unfortunately, this model loses out to the V6 and even more so to models based on the Illustrious.
>Getting a decent image is a struggle. Lots of bad outputs. It is unclear what style cluster to use for desired style. As I understand score_ tags do not work as expected in this version so it is unclear what quality tags to use. Maybe 7.1 will be better.
>Born as dead base model nobody asked for. Results are worse than from early sdxl anime models
>This sux, lmao.
>this would go hard if it was 2023
A few users aren't so negative:
>I see a lot of people clowning on the model, and of course some of it is warranted, but looking at the example images below, I have to admit I'm impressed.
>The hate on ts unfinished model is crazy.
>Guys please give this some time. i remember when the original sdxl was released it felt like garbage to me because i did not know what to do until loras and finetunes came out . ive never used the base models but from there things go on !
This seems useful if anyone wants to experiment with it themselves:
>The main problem is that Pony7 works with tags really worse, than Pony6. Pony7 somehow can work with long captions, but when typing everything short you almost always get bad results. It needs longer prompts unlike Illustrious.

I don't know how much stock to place in these evaluations. People seemed to have genned a lot of anime girls, and there are some futa anthros, but not a lot of actual ponies. The pony gens look pretty good, see picrel.