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Running this at home is only free like mining cryptocurrency is free if you didn't buy your computer and don't pay for the electricity. Plus you can only run it
by skybrian 4y ago
Running this at home is only free like mining cryptocurrency is free if you didn't buy your computer and don't pay for the electricity. Plus you can only run it on the computer that has the good graphics card, which probably isn't your laptop.
I expect most people aren't going to be generating images all day, so using a cloud-based service for occasional use will still make a lot of sense.
Stable Diffusion offers a paid service to do this too, and there's nothing wrong with that business model. Prices will probably come down, though.
- Tepix 4y agoIt does run on Apple silicon. 55 seconds in M1 Pro (vs 15 seconds on RTX 3070).
- redler 4y agoIs this native? Or Rosetta?
- Miraste 4y agoNative, and judging by the speed it's using Metal too (as opposed to CPU fallback).
- istsp 4y agoit will be faster soon as Emad said there was issues with the ISA for the gpu not being fully ported or something of the sort
- skybrian 4y agoThat's pretty good, but with that level of latency, I can still see people paying to use an online service that's faster. Maybe they'll speed it up more, though?
- bornfreddy 4y agoNot sure if GP had this in mind, but SD is (more) free in terms of liberty. So yes, you pay with electricity and hardware, but you control the process yourself, which is invaluable. DALL-E could change or go offline at any time.
- skybrian 4y agoConsidering the threat from DALL-E going offline, it seems quite acceptable. These aren't precious photos since it's all made up anyway, you can download any pictures you make, and you probably already did for the ones you care about. I'd worry more about, say, keeping your photos on Google and losing your account somehow.
- Miraste 4y agoIt's not only the threat of going offline. DALL-E makes it extremely difficult to generate many ideas because of its absurd content blocker - for example, I had something like "ominous, foreboding landscape beneath a black sun" blocked because (from what I could tell) it has words with negative connotations and the word "black" in the same sentence. It does this all the time, their discord is full of examples.
- skybrian 4y agoYeah, if you run into those then you'll want to use something else. (I haven't in my casual usage.)
- fomine3 4y agoNow many people have gaming PC for gaming, so they can use virtually free GPU to generate images if VRAM is enough.