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Feels like a race to the bottom. More features, lower cost, every week. No idea where it’ll level out, but I like it. Just bought some more Dalle credits today
by bottlepalm 4y ago
Feels like a race to the bottom. More features, lower cost, every week. No idea where it’ll level out, but I like it. Just bought some more Dalle credits today because it’s so much fun. This is a revolution in ‘art technology’ it’s like Steve Job’s bicycle for the mind. Best I could do a month ago was a stick figure in MS Paint, but now..
- have_faith 4y ago> Best I could do a month ago was a stick figure in MS Paint That is still the best you can do... which happens to be about the best I can do! Just like my introduction to the computer at a young age has atrophied my handwriting quality.
- bottlepalm 4y agoI guess if we’re going to get into semantics and the definition of self, where does the ‘I’ end and something else begin then I don’t really do anything. You could also say I can’t walk either without the ground.
- dougabug 4y agoI think he’s calling you a cyborg.
- have_faith 4y agoI was just being needlesssly pedantic. I guess it's a spectrum from "I painted the mona lisa" to "I pushed a button and a mona lisa appeared". That's a very individualistic view also though, maybe the thousands of programmers than commited to the thread of history that arrived at you pressing the button are part of the art performance.
- astrange 4y agoJust switch to a PalmPilot.
- tough 4y ago> it’s like Steve Job’s bicycle for the mind I have been thinking the same thing, it's sad Steve will not be able to see it
- guelo 4y agoNot sure why that is more sad than all the other dead people that can't see it.
- criddell 4y agoNobody said it is more sad.
- fartcannon 4y agoSteve would be trying to lock it down in his walled garden.
- MacsHeadroom 4y agoStable Diffusion is arguably better, has more features, and is free. OpenAI can't compete with free. Even if you don't want to take the 30 seconds to set it up in a free Google Colab environment, the paid DreamStudio version is still half the price of Dalle.
- slig 4y agoDo you know the best Google Colab tutorial / repo?
- cmdr2 4y agoHi, there are a couple of good UIs. https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui is an easy-to-install and use tool, written by me (with contributions by many). Version 2 is in beta, which is a 1-click installer for Windows, no dependencies or command line needed. v2 beta: https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui/tree/v2 https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui/tree/v2 https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion is another popular and good tool.
- slig 4y agoThank you!
- adamsmith143 4y agoI'm impressed how fast this is getting adopted. Dozens of repos have popped up.
- _joel 4y agoAny of these that work work with apple arm64 m2?
- tsol 4y agoAwesome, thanks a lot!
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- learndeeply 4y agoIt's a race to the top. New functionality is added and the model is improved week over week.
- aabhay 4y agoThat's still a race to the bottom if the price isn't going up.
- tough 4y agoPrice would have gone up if SD wasn't open source, look at the new google collab pro limitations and you have indications that they're loving this new wave for milking it properly, I just ordered a GPU to run on local.
- learndeeply 4y agoI don't think so, Colab pro limitations are precisely because they weren't charging by compute unit, so they were over-subscribed.
- jonplackett 4y agoThat’s not what a race to the bottom is. It’s just competition, which is usually good.
- 411111111111111 4y agoIt often feels like words are losing their meaning, with everyone misusing terms they don't fully understand. I don't want to be a doomer and have have surely unknowingly misused terms as well, but its definitely noticable how these originally clearly defined terms are getting used in entirely new ways. And it's not just with technical terms like this, it also applies to originally obvious terms such as racism, sexism etc which have lost their original meaning entirely
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- TheMagicHorsey 4y agoI feel like you aren't using the phrase "race to the bottom" correctly here. Generally a race to the bottom implies some kind of detrimental outcome for the world as a result of people failing to internalize externalities generated by a business.
- bottlepalm 4y agoIt has to do with commoditization and decreasing costs. Taking something technologically sophisticated and having it become open source and accessible so quickly is going from the top of the pyramid - big companies gate keeping betas, to the bottom - the public, available to everyone, cheaply. These companies are desperately trying to monetize this technology, but the value in terms of what people will pay is falling fast. It might not be a sustainable business model for OpenAI or anyone else for very long. Hence the race to the bottom - quickly make a buck before you can’t.
- benreesman 4y agoI share your enthusiasm for this development but curious what you mean by race to the bottom? There does seem to be a lot of vague angst about how this will affect the nascent "Prompt Engineer" career track, but I hope most are comfortable letting the open innovation play out a bit before trying to personally monetize it..
- bioemerl 4y ago> race to the bottom? In this context it's a good race. This software seems to have caught fire and tons of people are playing with it and providing tons of crazy new tools for cheap or free. It's a race to the top for us.
- rmac 4y agothe same thing could be said about ethereum and solana
- npteljes 4y ago>Best I could do a month ago was a stick figure in MS Paint You're forgetting (or not knowinng?) NVIDIA Canvas that came out one year ago, give or take. Literally turns stick figure complexity drawing into photorealistic stuff.