Purplekeyboard t1_j9xz3ir wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:07 AM

"Democratizing" image generation, if that means giving people access to it free, would not be difficult. Imagegen is not that expensive. You can buy unlimited AI image generation now for $25/month from NovelAI (although they only have anime models, but photorealistic models are not more expensive to run).

This also comes with unlimited text generation, although using smaller, weaker models than the best ones available. ChatGPT is currently free as well, and it is the best text generation model that's been released as of yet.

So, at least as long as you live in a first world country, these types of AI are easy to get access to.

oramirite t1_j9ykbe3 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:47 PM

Paying a monthly fee for a service run by a giant corporation isn't democracy, bud

Purplekeyboard t1_j9z97mm wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:39 PM

Democracy also isn't "free stuff for everyone".

oramirite t1_j9zc9z7 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:59 PM

Okay? Nobody is saying it is?

VitriolicViolet t1_ja0lx4s wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:13 PM

unless it is, its about what 'most' people want and 'most' people want someone else to pay.