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[–] IrateAnteater 10 points 8 months ago

I think one thing you and many other people misunderstand is that the image generation aspect of AI is a sideshow, both in use and in intent.

The ability to generate images from text based prompts is basically a side effect of the ability that they are actually spending billions on, which is object detection.