As for them not getting traction - many projects just don’t advertise which tech they use.
Also, having an open source alternative - even if slightly worse - gives projects an alternative if OpenAI decides to cut them off or sth.
What I tell startups is to start off with whatever OpenAI/Anthropic have to offer, if they can, and consider switching into Open Source only if it allows for something they can’t do (often in gen graphics), or when they reach product market fit and they can finetune/train a smaller model that handles their specific case better and cheaper.
When I first looked into stable diffusion I wanted to see what people were making with it and there was a few sites that showed stuff people had generated and it was 70% porn 29% high fantasy wallpapers (numbers are illustrative). Recently I've been looking at different text generation inference platforms like tgi and vllm on reddit, and 1 in 5 posts in the localllm subreddits are "What's the best model for erotic role play?"
My question was, porn (or other censored thing) could be in text, too. I don't understand why those who want censored content are primarily interested in graphics.
What style? Is it a texture? If so, I’ll need a model that can generate a large tiled image. Is it a logo? What kind? Is it badged, vintage, corporate, etc
Also, having an open source alternative - even if slightly worse - gives projects an alternative if OpenAI decides to cut them off or sth.
What I tell startups is to start off with whatever OpenAI/Anthropic have to offer, if they can, and consider switching into Open Source only if it allows for something they can’t do (often in gen graphics), or when they reach product market fit and they can finetune/train a smaller model that handles their specific case better and cheaper.