We've come a long way with these image models, and the things you can do with paltry 6B are super impressive. The community has adopted this model wholesale, and left Flux(2) by the way side. It helps that Z-Image isn't censored, whereas BFL (makers of Flux 2) dedicated like a fith of their press release talking about how "safe" (read: censored and lobotomized) their model is.
It‘s mainly due to system requirements that Flux.2-dev doesn’t get same usage as Z-Image. A 5090 needs about a minute to generate an image with a basic workflow with Flux.2-dev. But prompt adherence and scene/character consistency in edit mode is (way) ahead of Qwen-Edit-2509 if you ask me.
It will generate anything. Xi/Pooh porn, Taylor Swift getting squashed by a tank at Tiananmen Square, whatever, no censorship at all.
With simplistic prompts, you quickly conclude that the small model size is the only limitation. Once you realize how good it is with detailed prompts, though, you find that you can get a lot more diversity out of it than you initially thought you could.
Absolute game-changer of a model IMO. It is competitive with Nano Banana Pro in some respects, and that's saying something.
I could imagine the Chinese government is not terribly interested in enforcing its censorship laws when this would conflict with boosting Chinese AI. Overregulation can be a significant inhibitor to innovation and competitiveness, as we often see in Europe.
I'm sure they're also aware that few of their own citizens are in a position to run the model themselves, and that it's easy enough to use the system prompt to censor hosted copies for domestic consumption.
Censoring open-source models really doesn't make a lot of sense for China. Which could also be why local Deepseek instances are relatively easy to jailbreak.
> whereas BFL (makers of Flux 2) dedicated like a fith of their press release talking about how "safe" (read: censored and lobotomized) their model is.
Agreed, but let’s not confuse what it is. Talking about safety is just “WE WONT EMBARRASS YOU IF YOU INVEST IN US”.
