ou can call it not art, which is fine. you can get annoyed at people having shit taste. but fundamentally people who lacked technical skills can now express themselves through that medium with ease and joy. like, its an absolute and total victory for the tool
i give it 3 months max before open source with this much editing power exists. there were already some attempts but openai proving it accelerates the quality
It burns cash to *train* these models, primarily. Serving them fast in the cloud secondarily
But once trained, compressing/distilling them down to open source models runnable on pretty cheap hardware is basically now a <3mo process for the open source world
almost immediately the wheels fell off for me. subsequent edits add grain and sepia tone continuously. it's impressive to be able to edit like that, but there's something cooked in how they're implementing it. ran a bunch of fft comparisons to Flickr and flux and mj, and imo something is off in 4o
yea you iterative edits don't work for that reason kinda. but you can def accumulate prompt changes to new context. i think api unlocks the editing people want. but also...not sur ewhen that comes
imagen3 is not as impressively editable, but it's been pretty close and doesn't over grain/sepia tone images. once you see it you can't unsee it in a lot of 4o output
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But once trained, compressing/distilling them down to open source models runnable on pretty cheap hardware is basically now a <3mo process for the open source world
open gpt4o-class cloud models are <$1/hr
But for a noob like me, 4o produces a long of really fun mind-blowing stuff 😂