Their value proposition thus far has been "Give stuff away".
I'm grateful for it, and I think they should have government funding if necessary -- the upsides are huge, just little of it goes to Stability -- but it's easy to see why investors would be wary.
It's readily apparent that any sufficiently useful AI/CV/ML should be deployed to solve specific, immediate, niche problems of individual people that they're willing to pay small amounts of money or assign referral commissions for:
- Product personal shopper-recommender goes out and crawls reviews and pricing to find what and where someone should buy something based on a prompt.
- Where to live.
- Where to go out.
- What to have for dinner.
- Find a plumber, carpenter, etc. and do open source due-diligence on them.
- How to optimally invest money based on circumstances, assumptions, and speculative outcome distribution.
- How to redecorate a room.
In a business context, there are many classes of problems AI can semi-automate including:
- Decision support
- Feature prioritization based on support data and social media sentiment
Yeah. Every time Emad has talked about their business model changes I've always thought "...that's it?"
I personally think they're missing some low hanging fruit, though I suppose it might be in the name of "safety." I believe Stability (maybe Clipdrop?) at least did have some sort of paid Lora or other training, but I tried it and it was awful. Considering they made the models surely they would have the absolute best insight into full fine tuning it and could roll out a service to do so.
I think they talked about doing it B2B at a presumably much higher cost, but a consumer facing, easy to use way of doing it would at least pull in some money. Of course, the second someone uses that to train child porn or whatever they'll be in hot water.
