>>94805321As the other anon said, most likely it's already embedded. If you don't use it, the image would look grayed out (that's still what happens even on Illustrious right?).
There are actually a few VAEs around but they're minor changes, it was a bigger deal with 1.5 where for over a year IIRC we had a fucked vae that caused all sorts of issues and it was a major improvement once that was discovered and fixed.
That's quite good for a newbie gen.