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If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation (self.showerthoughts)
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without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.

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[-] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yep, I've a mobile 3070 in my laptop, and whilst I feasibly could run some of the smallest models around, paying on a per-use basis gets me way better quality results for relatively cheaply.

Besides, running it locally isn't free either. Your hardware deprecates and depreciates over time, in addition to non-negligible power costs.

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