Note that training is extremely expensive, and is beyond the capabilities of most end users.
You can't run it on consumer hardware, but you can just rent a GPU (or use a free collab book) for a few hours to generate the model. Then you download and reuse it locally at will. Yes, you need storage and if you train often it can get expensive, but it is by no mean out of the end user, at least professional end users, capabilities. And of course there are growing libraries of freely available pretrained models.
In this case, end users are artists. One could imagine a cloud-based art program which will fine tune on demand. That certainly seems like a good startup idea.
Very much agree about this. At least for a while, I strongly believe that AI will just be another tool for artists willing to embrace it, far from replacing them.
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You can't run it on consumer hardware, but you can just rent a GPU (or use a free collab book) for a few hours to generate the model. Then you download and reuse it locally at will. Yes, you need storage and if you train often it can get expensive, but it is by no mean out of the end user, at least professional end users, capabilities. And of course there are growing libraries of freely available pretrained models.
Very much agree about this. At least for a while, I strongly believe that AI will just be another tool for artists willing to embrace it, far from replacing them.