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by bbitmaster 842 days ago
Alas! Didn't get the memo? We're In the era where AI tools are all "software as a service," and you must pay for individual inferences from the model. How could they charge for inferences if they gave you the model to download?
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I don't have access to any special model that I'm holding back from you in order to rent-seek.

Anyone can learn to build something like this. The parts are all available out there. There's Whisper. There's Mistral-7b. There's Tortoise, Coqui, SV2TTS. There's Python.

The bigger question is:

Would you want to?

I've been building web apps for several years now. I've sunk thousands of dollars into those projects. And literally years of my time. If I calculated my hourly wage, I'd be below a teenager mowing lawn. In Rwanda. And by a factor of 10x, probably.

The real ROI here is the learning. And that's not something I'm "taking" from anyone.

You are awesome, man! Keep it going and all the best of luck!
Amen, bro.