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> commercial artists (or other people with visual image needs, perhaps avoiding the need for commercial artists) incorporating it in production workflows Maybe
by logifail 4y ago
> commercial artists (or other people with visual image needs, perhaps avoiding the need for commercial artists) incorporating it in production workflows
Maybe it's just me, but that reeks of the archetypal race to the bottom.
"We didn't have to pay professional X to do task Y as we and others have been doing for decades, instead we used modern replacement Z funded by cheap money which costs peanuts at present".
Q: Is there really a business to be made selling Z?
- dragonwriter 4y agoWho cares? If Z is effectively free, and there are businesses to be enhanced using Z, then people are making money with Z, even if the mechanism isn’t “selling Z.” (Of course, yes, if there are businesses to be enhanced with Z, even if Z is free in the sense that open source software is free – which is exactly or approximately the case with much of the Stable Diffusion ecosystem – there will be businesses also to be made “selling” Z, or, more accurately, selling specialized services relating to Z like bespoke enhancements, support, hosting, and training. But those are very much the selling-shovels services that the question upthread asked to exclude; the using-shovels businesses are actually producing products incorporating images.)