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It would be a huge disaster to lose out on the folks releasing the models for free. Nobody benefits from their failure. If Runway and Stability can cut costs
by stabilityfan1 3y ago
It would be a huge disaster to lose out on the folks releasing the models for free.
Nobody benefits from their failure.
If Runway and Stability can cut costs they will become cherished institutions.
- chii 3y ago> cut costs without a stable source of revenue, cutting costs mean nothing. What are they selling, and why isn't there buyers? A business cannot survive without revenue, and revenue only comes from people who want to buy something from you that they cannot otherwise get else where. I applaud StabilityAI for releasing SD for free. They could've done what openAI did, and monetized it (which other diffusion model services are doing). By releasing it for free, stabilityAI contributed to the common good. Unfortunately, if there's nothing else that can be sold as a product, they cannot be sustainable. An alternative, which i'm not too big a fan of, is collectivization of AI models, and make it a global commons for which taxpayers will fund.
- zamnos 3y agoThey could have at least charged money for it. "I'll give you this 4 GiB model file for $50" might have been a better business model than "lemme give this to you for free!".
- qeternity 3y ago> releasing the models for free ... > cut costs Unless they can cut costs to zero, something has to change.