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by jagaerglad 28 days ago
may I ask the reason your clients don't just generate these things themselves?
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Usually, this kind of work is difficult with large models. They either get rejected by policy or don't produce stable results. So you have to use local models, but local models have inconsistent quality and the setup is complicated.

That's why clients usually hear about keywords like LoRA somewhere and say, 'I heard you can generate it with this method.' But in reality, they don't know how to install a local model, serve it, run it, or stabilize the results. And that's where freelancers like me come in.

As a freelancer, it's hard to completely ignore this trend. Because freelancers like me aren't inside a company, we're usually a step behind on the latest news. So we end up searching through the information and keywords that clients share with us, organizing it, and following industry trends that we pick up when we visit companies for consulting.

In any case, most clients aren't completely clueless—they usually provide keywords like 'I heard you can do it this way' and make their reques

Much to the chagrin of the folks claiming "AI art is not art because it requires no skill" it does actually take skill and effort to get good results from LLMs.