I did a show HN about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900095 a month ago, to experiment with the techn

I did a show HN about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900095 a month ago, to experiment with the technology. The training was done in a week-end only, with 2 old gpus (1080ti). Currently waiting to scale-up for improve quality mainly for economic reasons, not quite sure I could recoup the training costs yet. Even more so if I go with cloud training. NVidia will release the 4090 in september, and ethereum may do "the merge" that will make GPU useless for mining so GPU price could be affordable so I can update my home cluster with affordable 3090s. (But electricity prices are also up). Also there are new algorithms every month like the stable diffusion, that would obsolete your previous training. The video generation cost is probably still too expensive compared to just paying a cam girl in a low wage country. But it will probably go down soon. This is also some sensitive data, as plagued with copyright issues, so it's quite troublesome to legally share training datasets to share costs. It also has its own challenges with respect to custom dataset creation with text description, so it's probably a better idea to adapt the algorithm to the currently available data to keep the costs low. Finally once someone releases a model, in the next month there will be at least 3 clones. There is also the problem to find an adult friendly payment processor. And the multitude of potential legal issues. But it's probably inevitable.