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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by flangola7 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:40PM (#37539509)
Long term they may offer both, with the local model consuming fewer credits per request. The new GPUs all have secure enclave remote attestation architecture, so Adobe would be able to offer this without the risk of someone jailbreaking the model and running it for free.
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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by fragmede on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:15PM (#37540510)
Assuming that their secure enclave is, in fact, unhackable, that is.
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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by flangola7 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:07AM (#37542000)
The Xbox One has not been hacked in the 10 years since its release. Apple already uses the same kind of tech to protect the various AI models in iPhones and MacBooks, for tasks like OCR search of stored image files and to auto-cutout people in photos.

Enclaves are rarely broken and the people that can are selling it to the CIA, not leaking it on the pirate bay.

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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by tavavex on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:24PM (#37540551)
What would the explanation for charging money here be though? The user is already paying for the license and they're using their own hardware and power to do so. It'd be like charging per use of any other advanced features in locally-run Adobe software.
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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by taneq on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:52PM (#37540702)
Yeah, that’d be as crazy as charging car owners a subscription fee to use their heated seats.
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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by flangola7 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:18AM (#37542051)
> What would the explanation for charging money here be though? The user is already paying for the license and they're using their own hardware and power to do so.

To pay for the privilege of using a very advanced AI model. That's more reasonable than paying to unlock a game character skin that's already on your SSD, and that happens millions of times a day.

> It'd be like charging per use of any other advanced features in locally-run Adobe software.

I don't see anything stopping this.

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Re:Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI by coldtea on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:14AM (#37544227)
>It'd be like charging per use of any other advanced features in locally-run Adobe software.

Software companies already do that. There are kinds of locally-run advanced features that are only enabled with a more expensive subscription tier.

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