Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Back to the mines

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It’s kind of crazy how fast ‘AI’ got accepted and turned into the new ‘must have’ feature.
I think it’s because the results it produce are fairly spectacular for the amount of effort you put into it, especially if you’re used to writing code. The problem is that to get any real use out of those prototypes you need to build them from scratch the old fashioned way, which sucks as management got sold on the ‘fast’ part and the temptation is there.

The latest iteration of ‘generated content’ is scarily good (a few minutes of interactive prototype …), but as good as it is the hard limitations are unseen by those who promote it to the non-techy manager folk.

Part of the problem is that most folk don’t see the amount of horse power that is behind all of these things, because the companies in charge give it away for free.

The worst aspect is that folk don’t realise that they’re making themselves even more dependent on infrastructure from 3rd parties without any form of morals or ethics as we’ve seen when these guys complain about having to pay for copyrighted content to use in their machinery … . (and like everything else it looks like they’re getting away with it as well, unlike us mere mortals who got threatened with jail for daring to copy/distribute a single 3 second sample … )

Anyways … I do like exploring what the likes of OLlama can do on a local machine.
However after looking at the kind of money you need to run the more advanced models locally … not so much (10,000$ is practically entry level due to the cost of the GPU’s required).

oh well … hobby time we needs.
The golden buttons are nice, but it once again highlights the amount of talent that is within this community. Talent so far above where I’m at that I doubt I’d ever be good enough. (and it kind of sucks that the same names keep repeating which include a few what I suspect are semi-professional commission painters  … )