How To Fix Artifacts In The SDXL 1.0 VAE - Hidden Watermark System (Patreon)

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It appears that there are some embedded watermarking system in 1.0 VAE

This is not verified yet but a possibility

Therefore we will use this particular VAE with SDXL 1.0 release

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-vae/resolve/main/sdxl_vae.safetensors

Put into VAE folder and select it as default or select from quick menus

Watch below tutorial starting minute 10 and watch few minutes to understand

https://youtu.be/3E5fhFQUVLo

Same procedure apply to ComfyUI as well

Put into VAE folder and add VAE loader

Start from minute 5 if you wish

I explained that in this tutorial : https://youtu.be/FnMHbhvWUhE