Why it downloads 4GB at start?

[morganavr]

Updated auto1111 via git pull (have not updated in a few months) and now it downloads 4GB file at

Downloading: "https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/resolve/main/v1-5-pruned-emaonly.safetensors" to F:\automatic1111\models\Stable-diffusion\v1-5-pruned-emaonly.safetensors

Is it really necessary? I have lots of other models I use...

[Soulreaver90]

Meant for beginners who did not have a base model to work with, so it automatically downloads the SD 1.5 model. You can either download or launch with the following arg to bypass --no-download-sd-model