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A lot of use cases are cost-limited. Dalle3 makes great images but costs $0.12 per image so it would get extremely expensive at scale (1k generations is already
by declaredapple 3y ago
A lot of use cases are cost-limited. Dalle3 makes great images but costs $0.12 per image so it would get extremely expensive at scale (1k generations is already 120$). The cost is by gpu time, the faster you can generate it the cheaper it is. We can get images under 250ms now, which is fast enough to fit in a web request.
Some use cases might be generating profile pictures or banners for users or unique profile pictures for bots in online games. Discord, steam, social media, whatnot, you could just type what you want your profile picture to be and make it on the fly. They're small, aren't expected to be extremely high quality, and cheap enough.
Testing on https://fastsdxl.ai/ https://fastsdxl.ai/ - "high quality profile picture of a cartoon cat holding a Bouquet of flowers"
To be clear it's not perfect, but this is a fairly complex prompt and I find the majority of seeds would be "good enough" for thumbnail profile pictures. I think we're almost there for "cheap good enough" usecases.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoI feel like you're grasping at use cases here... I also feel like people would find a low quality profile picture to be terrible.
- declaredapple 3y agoGithub's profile pictures are 40x40px in issues/pr's/commits/etc, they're very rarely seen above that, and I think sdxl lightning creates acceptable 1024x1024 images in many cases - downscaling to 512x512 hides a lot of the "ai artifacts" Places like steam, discord, etc you very rarely see profile pictures above that size.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoOk but... Is generating these things really a problem or feature that people want addressed?
- ecoquant 3y agoThe use case is you can print out the great images and put them on your wall for decoration. It is just art. I think AI art shows what obsessed gadget makers for profit we have become culturally. We can't even figure out that the use case for art is hanging on the wall for decoration. For a conversation piece. A few will have their name become known and make it into galleries. Infinite supply means the value tends towards zero.Good luck monetizing anything with those economic characteristics.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoI feel pretty comfortable estimating that 99%, if not 99.9% of art is not printed out and hung on a wall for decoration.