Re:Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion m...
by logifail on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:26PM
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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 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?
Re:Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion m...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:00PM
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Who cares? If Z is 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.”
Making money with it in the non-shovel-selling sense is going to be commercial artists (or other people with visual image needs, perhaps avoiding the need for commercial artists) incorporating it in production workflows. But except when they are also selling shovels (e.g., Pixar with Renderman) there’s not a whole lot of incentive to trumpet workflow components rather than product in that space.