>You'll be able to follow that steampunk vampire creator that's been missing from the world until now. Every long tail interest will be catered to. Even the most obscure and wild tastes, ideas, and designs. Stuff that would never get studio funding.
Your optimism reminds me of the optimism I had around the early internet. Power to the people, long tail, rise of the creative class, the fall of gatekeeping corporations, etc.
It was like that for a couple of years in the late 90s before power and control got vastly more centralized than before. Maybe this time it’ll be different.
The big difference is that back then, anyone with a consumer-level computer in their bedroom could turn it into a server and be a first-class citizen on the Internet.
With generative AI, models will be controlled by a handful of giant corporations who have the enormous corpuses (of dubious provenance) and compute ability to train them.
You can run ComfyUI and AnimateDiff on your PC. If you haven't checked them out, please do.
And there are other angles to consider. Apple, for one, is expressly interested in not becoming a thin client to cloud AI. They're baking a lot of inference power into their chips. If the creative class don't need their devices, that doesn't bode well for them...
FakeYou, CivitAi, WeightsGg, Comflowy, ... -- there are tons of vibrant communities to teach you everything you need to know. The tools are open source, free to use, and accessible.
Your optimism reminds me of the optimism I had around the early internet. Power to the people, long tail, rise of the creative class, the fall of gatekeeping corporations, etc.
It was like that for a couple of years in the late 90s before power and control got vastly more centralized than before. Maybe this time it’ll be different.