[sandworm101]

>> Training these big models is very very expensive.

Which is why they are not the future. A big model that can generate a picture about anything in response to any input makes for a great website. It generates lots of press. But it is not a reasonable tool for content generation. If you want to produce content in a specific area or genre, the best results come from a model trained or modified in the area. So the big generalized AI, if you use it, would only be the framework on which you built your specialized tool. Building that specialized tool, such as something dedicated to images of a particular politician, does not require huge amounts of computation. That sort of thing can and is being done by individuals.

I am waiting for a tool trained on publicly-accessible mugshots. It wouldn't be a very big project but could yield a tool to generate very believable mugshots of politicians.

[bufferoverflow]

I think it's unreasonable to expect a model for every possible use case. You would need billions of models, if not trillions.

Big generalist models are the future.