Stable Diffusion XL on Mac Silicon

Steps

1. Install Homebrew https://brew.sh.
2. Run brew install cmake protobuf rust python@3.10 git wget
3. Run git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
4. Download the Stable Diffusion XL model (sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors) from Hugging Face and place it in stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion.
5. cd stable-diffusion-webui and then ./webui.sh to run the web UI
6. Have fun!

Settings for SDXL

• Update the default image size from 512x512 to 1024x1024.
• Update sampling steps to 30.

References

• https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki/Installation-on-Apple-Silicon
• https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0/tree/main
• https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15bi5pu/sdxl_10_a111_why_do_all_my_pictures_come_out_like/