{"id":22176,"date":"2024-08-24T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2024-08-24T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T23:48:45","slug":"ai-news-flash-people-prefer-paying-for-things-that-are-actually-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/24\/ai-news-flash-people-prefer-paying-for-things-that-are-actually-good\/","title":{"rendered":"AI news flash: People prefer paying for things that are actually good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this level of transparency from the folks behind Photo AI. Developer @levelsio reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/blackforestlabs.ai\/#get-flux\">Flux<\/a>] made Photo AI finally good enough overnight to be actually used by people and be satisfied with the results\u2026 it&#8217;s more expensive [than SD] but worth it because the photos are way way better\u2026 Not sure about profitability but with SD it was about 85% profit. With Flux def less maybe 65%\u2026 Very unplanned and grateful the foundational models got better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re arguably in something of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gartner_hype_cycle\">trough of disillusionment<\/a> in the AI-art hype cycle, but this kind of progress gives reason for hope: more quality &amp; more utility\u00a0<em>do<\/em> translate into more sustainable value\u2014and there&#8217;s every reason to think that things will only improve from here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Flux, the new AI model, changes businesses (and lives)<\/p>\n<p>It made <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1vEawpI5vb\">https:\/\/t.co\/1vEawpI5vb<\/a> finally good enough overnight to be actually used by people and be satisfied with the results<\/p>\n<p>All my improvements before helped but now it&#8217;s accelerating with Flux&#8217;s photo quality <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BiAqi5BgnY\">pic.twitter.com\/BiAqi5BgnY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @levelsio (@levelsio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/levelsio\/status\/1826202200017608824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this level of transparency from the folks behind Photo AI. Developer @levelsio reports, [Flux] made Photo AI finally good enough overnight to be actually used by people and be satisfied with the results\u2026 it&#8217;s more expensive [than SD] but worth it because the photos are way way better\u2026 Not sure about profitability but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22178,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions\/22178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}