Well even the free models aren't free at scale. And if you're paying for the inference anyways you might as well pay for one in a model which was specifically t

Well even the free models aren't free at scale. And if you're paying for the inference anyways you might as well pay for one in a model which was specifically truncated to your needs. To provide some perspective here, SD can be retrained on comparably small samples to generate images for very specific needs (example see [1]). So there is certainly a bunch of $ to be harvested by generating very good training sets for industry needs, say for instance mockups in architecture, creating logos and brand styles or just nice looking designs for consumer products. [1] https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusion-how-we-made-the-text-to-pokemon-model-at-lambda https://lambdalabs.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-stable-diffusio...