diff --git a/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/ml/weights_registry/weights.rs b/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/ml/weights_registry/weights.rs
index 332082eb40..4e44e453fa 100644
--- a/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/ml/weights_registry/weights.rs
+++ b/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/ml/weights_registry/weights.rs
@@ -42,12 +42,14 @@ pub const SDXL_TURBO_CLIP_TEXT_ENCODER_2 : WeightDescriptor = weight!(
   WeightFunction::TextEncoder
 );
 
+#[deprecated]
 pub const SDXL_TURBO_VAE : WeightDescriptor = weight!(
   "SDXL Turbo",
   "diffusion_pytorch_model.vae.safetensors",
   WeightFunction::Vae
 );
 
+#[deprecated]
 pub const SDXL_TURBO_UNET : WeightDescriptor = weight!(
   "SDXL Turbo",
   "diffusion_pytorch_model.unet.safetensors",
diff --git a/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/threads/downloader_thread.rs b/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/threads/downloader_thread.rs
index 5cb8046970..3a9992fc7d 100644
--- a/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/threads/downloader_thread.rs
+++ b/crates/desktop/src-tauri/src/threads/downloader_thread.rs
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ pub async fn downloader_thread(app_data_root: AppDataRoot, app: AppHandle) -> !
   download_queue.push_back(LYKON_DEAMSHAPER_7_VAE);
   download_queue.push_back(SIMIANLUO_LCM_DREAMSHAPER_V7_UNET);
   download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_CLIP_TEXT_ENCODER); // TODO(bt): Why is this still needed?
-  download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_CLIP_TEXT_ENCODER_2); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
-  download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_VAE); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
-  download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_UNET); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
+  //download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_CLIP_TEXT_ENCODER_2); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
+  //download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_VAE); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
+  //download_queue.push_back(SDXL_TURBO_UNET); // TODO(bt): REMOVE
 
   let mut handles = FuturesUnordered::new();