Great reporting. It's sad the state of affairs and I need to remind myself that those cheap seafood we get from the supermarket maybe coming from these labors.
With comfyui, you can do SDXL > SD1.5 or SD1.5 > SDXL, it makes more sense to generate basic image in SDXL Turbo and apply the effects of a checkpoint later.
Coming from Auto1111 for a year, I thought comfy was most like always using img2img, then I figured out it wasn’t that but laten2latent… which is cool, but using XL to get the better prompting and 1.5 to get checkpoints and Loras I want is making it all click now.
I actually feel in the same way of how GPT-4 has increased my capabilities as an individual than for company. It's insane how fast the idea iterations can be and you can actually execute it pretty fast.
I believe you've touched on the crux of the matter. Corporations can not only censor, but also train AI models utilizing biased data, granting them significant influence over shaping the AI discourse among the general populace. This warrants serious contemplation and discussion.
Or “the $x market is one quadrillion dollars if we just capture 1% the company will be worth billions” - or the first slide of the pitch deck of every startup seeking venture capital.
