diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
index 8f33e4b49f..4aef281bac 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_manager/probe.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from picklescan.scanner import scan_file_path
 import invokeai.backend.util.logging as logger
 from invokeai.app.util.misc import uuid_string
 from invokeai.backend.model_hash.model_hash import HASHING_ALGORITHMS, ModelHash
-from invokeai.backend.util.util import SilenceWarnings
+from invokeai.backend.util.silence_warnings import SilenceWarnings
 
 from .config import (
     AnyModelConfig,
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/util/silence_warnings.py b/invokeai/backend/util/silence_warnings.py
index 4c566ba759..0cd6d0738d 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/util/silence_warnings.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/util/silence_warnings.py
@@ -1,29 +1,36 @@
-"""Context class to silence transformers and diffusers warnings."""
-
 import warnings
-from typing import Any
+from contextlib import ContextDecorator
 
-from diffusers import logging as diffusers_logging
+from diffusers.utils import logging as diffusers_logging
 from transformers import logging as transformers_logging
 
 
-class SilenceWarnings(object):
-    """Use in context to temporarily turn off warnings from transformers & diffusers modules.
+# Inherit from ContextDecorator to allow using SilenceWarnings as both a context manager and a decorator.
+class SilenceWarnings(ContextDecorator):
+    """A context manager that disables warnings from transformers & diffusers modules while active.
 
+    As context manager:
+    ```
     with SilenceWarnings():
         # do something
+    ```
+
+    As decorator:
+    ```
+    @SilenceWarnings()
+    def some_function():
+        # do something
+    ```
     """
 
-    def __init__(self) -> None:
-        self.transformers_verbosity = transformers_logging.get_verbosity()
-        self.diffusers_verbosity = diffusers_logging.get_verbosity()
-
     def __enter__(self) -> None:
+        self._transformers_verbosity = transformers_logging.get_verbosity()
+        self._diffusers_verbosity = diffusers_logging.get_verbosity()
         transformers_logging.set_verbosity_error()
         diffusers_logging.set_verbosity_error()
         warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
 
-    def __exit__(self, *args: Any) -> None:
-        transformers_logging.set_verbosity(self.transformers_verbosity)
-        diffusers_logging.set_verbosity(self.diffusers_verbosity)
+    def __exit__(self, *args) -> None:
+        transformers_logging.set_verbosity(self._transformers_verbosity)
+        diffusers_logging.set_verbosity(self._diffusers_verbosity)
         warnings.simplefilter("default")
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/util/util.py b/invokeai/backend/util/util.py
index 1ee89dcc66..b3466ddba9 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/util/util.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/util/util.py
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@ import io
 import os
 import re
 import unicodedata
-import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from diffusers import logging as diffusers_logging
 from PIL import Image
-from transformers import logging as transformers_logging
 
 # actual size of a gig
 GIG = 1073741824
@@ -80,21 +77,3 @@ class Chdir(object):
 
     def __exit__(self, *args):
         os.chdir(self.original)
-
-
-class SilenceWarnings(object):
-    """Context manager to temporarily lower verbosity of diffusers & transformers warning messages."""
-
-    def __enter__(self):
-        """Set verbosity to error."""
-        self.transformers_verbosity = transformers_logging.get_verbosity()
-        self.diffusers_verbosity = diffusers_logging.get_verbosity()
-        transformers_logging.set_verbosity_error()
-        diffusers_logging.set_verbosity_error()
-        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
-
-    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
-        """Restore logger verbosity to state before context was entered."""
-        transformers_logging.set_verbosity(self.transformers_verbosity)
-        diffusers_logging.set_verbosity(self.diffusers_verbosity)
-        warnings.simplefilter("default")