| ▲ | Imnimo 19 hours ago |
| I'm curious what the applications are where people need to generate hundreds or thousands of these images. I like making Ghibli-esque versions of family photos as much as the next person, but I don't need to make them in volume. As far as I can recall, every time I've used image generation, it's been one-off things that I'm happy to do in the ChatGPT UI. |
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| ▲ | minimaxir 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| As usual for AI startups nowadays, using this API you can create a downstream wrapper for image generation with bespoke prompts. A pro/con of the multimodal image generation approach (with an actually good text encoder) is that it rewards intense prompt engineering moreso than others, and if there is a use case that can generate more than $0.17/image in revenue, that's positive marginal profit. |
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| ▲ | reducemore 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’ve built a daily image-based puzzle that’s fully automated, and have been using flux to generate images. I’ve found sometimes they’re just not good enough, so have been doing some manual curation. But, with this new API, I’ll see if it can run by itself again. |
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| ▲ | theptip 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| An obvious one is for video games, interactive fiction, that sort of thing. AI dungeon with visuals could be pretty interesting. |
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| ▲ | brian-armstrong 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's too expensive for that unless you had a pretty generous subscription fee. I think local models are probably best suited for gaming where a decent GPU is already likely present. | | |
| ▲ | theptip an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think there is a niche for both. Local LLMs are orders of magnitude smaller, so you could imagine cloud bursting for the difficult/important work like generating character portraits. That said it’ll be 10-20x cheaper in a year at which point I don’t think you care about price for this workflow in 2D games. |
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| ▲ | whywhywhywhy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > where people need to generate hundreds or thousands of these images Anyone using image gen for real work not just for fun. Although you're way better off finding your own workflows with local models at that scale. |
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| ▲ | austhrow743 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use the api because i don’t use chatgpt enough to justify the cost of their UI offering. |
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| ▲ | marviel 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AI-assisted education is promising. |
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| ▲ | samtp 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm still struggling to see how you would need thousands of AI generated images rather than just using existing real images for education. | | |
| ▲ | abossy 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The company I work for generates thousands of these each week for children's personalized storybooks to help them learn how to read. The story text is the core part of the application, but the personalized images are what make them engaging. | |
| ▲ | marviel 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | - personalization (style, analogy to known concepts) - specificity (a diagram that perfectly encapsulates the exact set of concepts you're asking about) | | |
| ▲ | indeyets 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | But LLMs are not reliable enough, so you can not actually expect “specificity” | | |
| ▲ | aeonik 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | More reliable than 80% of my teachers growing up. | |
| ▲ | marviel 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not perfect now, but adequate in some domains. Will only get better. | | |
| ▲ | Hackbraten 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Will only get better. AI companies are still in their "burning money" phase. Enshittification is not on the horizon yet, but it's inevitable. | | |
| ▲ | concats 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | While I have no doubt that individual companies, such as OpenAI for example, will eventually introduce enshittification features, I doubt the industry as a whole can be summarized that easily. I believe, over all, development will go forward and things will get better. A rising tide lifts all ships, even if some of them decide to be shitty leaking vessels. If nothing else we always have open source software to fall back on when the enshittification of the proprietary models start. For a practical example: The cars we drive today are a lot better than 100 years ago. A bad future isn't always inevitable. | | |
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| ▲ | Etheryte 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That is true in a broader sense, but education and abundant money don't generally go hand in hand. | | | |
| ▲ | whatnow37373 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Having trouble with your algebra? MathWiz is having a 20% discount this month only. Only $24.95 / month. This is an excellent deal. Don't you want to improve? Do you want to let your family down, like they thought you would? Or would like me to create an account for you?" | | |
| ▲ | marviel 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | "Want to get a job? [COLLEGE] is having a 0% discount -- only $200,000 a year! Don't you want to have a place to live? Go horribly in debt, pick a degree that may not matter, all at an age where your Brain has not yet developed fully!" etc |
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| ▲ | chipgap98 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Interior design, fashion, and advertising all come to mind |
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| ▲ | jevogel 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Imagine an AI recipe building app that helps you create a recipe with certain ingredients, then generates an image of what the final product might look like. |
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| ▲ | what 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why do need to know what it looks like? Or are you publishing the recipe without cooking it? |
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| ▲ | aprilthird2021 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Imagine a news feed that never ends full of AI slop to sell ads on |
