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If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.

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[–] K3zi4 27 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I'm still unsure why anyone would pay for AI image generation purely because of the trial and error it takes. I get that not everyone has a GPU that can do it, but I use stable diffusion through automatic 1111 and I'll likely be about 2-300 generations of text to image, image to image, some inpainting and editing, then some more image to image and upscaling before I get a representation of what's in my head down.

I love the process of it all, but paying for tokens would completely limit me. Is there a specific reason that people use paid models? Or is it just because a lot of people are limited by their gpu?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh, look, it's one of those guys who grows his own potatoes too.

[–] K3zi4 1 points 2 months ago

Hahaha, I hadn't considered it that way. Touché.

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