OSError: It looks like the config file at 'J:/SD/models/stable-diffusion-v1-4.ckpt' is not a valid JSON file.

[JosephBashful]

clean installation, i got this error with my model i usually use with other repo.
Here's the full output
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "J:\MINICONDA\envs\g_diffuser\lib\site-packages\diffusers\configuration_utils.py", line 272, in get_config_dict
config_dict = cls._dict_from_json_file(config_file)
File "J:\MINICONDA\envs\g_diffuser\lib\site-packages\diffusers\configuration_utils.py", line 324, in _dict_from_json_file
text = reader.read()
File "J:\MINICONDA\envs\g_diffuser\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 64: invalid start byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "J:\SD\g_diffuser_cli.py", line 206, in
main()
File "J:\SD\g_diffuser_cli.py", line 89, in main
gdl.load_pipelines(args)
File "J:\SD\g_diffuser_lib.py", line 639, in load_pipelines
pipe = pipe_map[pipe_name].from_pretrained(
File "J:\MINICONDA\envs\g_diffuser\lib\site-packages\diffusers\pipeline_utils.py", line 290, in from_pretrained
config_dict = cls.get_config_dict(
File "J:\MINICONDA\envs\g_diffuser\lib\site-packages\diffusers\configuration_utils.py", line 274, in get_config_dict
raise EnvironmentError(f"It looks like the config file at '{config_file}' is not a valid JSON file.")
OSError: It looks like the config file at 'J:/SD/models/stable-diffusion-v1-4.ckpt' is not a valid JSON file.

[olibols]

Install it like it tells you to in the README.md in the models folder. Pasting your checkpoints file is not that.

[parlance-zz]

Install it like it tells you to in the README.md in the models folder. Pasting your checkpoints file is not that.

He speaks the truth. What you need is the diffusers specific model. There are links in the models readme.