[magicalhippo]

Or it might allow proficient blender users to become more productive, resulting in higher detailed scenes for the same budget.

We'll see how it shakes out. As a non-proficient Blender user, I'm kinda keen on this since I have had a lot of ideas that I haven't been able to realize in Blender.

[sassymuffinz]

So reducing budgets and suppressing wages then, what a great deal for the workers who have specialised in this field and who's work and effort the LLM has been trained on to replace them!

[all2]

This is like arguing we should only have manual looms because the mechanical looms suppress wages and destroy the livelihoods of those expert loom operators.

The tech is here. We can fight it, or adapt and embrace it.

If previous examples from the industrial revolution are anything to go by, fighting automation is a losing battle.

[sassymuffinz]

Difference is that those tools modernised the work and actually created jobs. The ultimate aim of these AI sociopaths is to remove all work in all areas so they can hoover up all the money and let people starve.

[all2]

I won't argue with that.

But, there is plenty of open source stuff out there to enable people to have their own models, running on their own hardware. Business does not need to go to the big 3.

[sassymuffinz]

Business doesn't need to go to the big 3, but it will. The big companies will ensure that smaller, specialised or open models get restricted by laws paid for by their lobbying budgets, so that they can pull up the ladder after them and solidify their position. They've invested billions and will never allow the world become some tech utopia where we all have a personalised free AI in our pocket, they will guarantee their own dominance.

[astrange]

That is not possible because that's not how money works. One way you can tell it's not possible is that it's the plot of Atlas Shrugged.