> Tens of thousands of so-called "AI" image generator startups have been obliterated and taking digital artists with them all reduced to near zero. Now you have a widely accessible meme generator with the name "ChatGPT".
ChatGPT has already had a that via Dall-E. If it didn't kill those startups when that happened this doesn't fundamentally change anything. Now its got a new image gen model, which — like Dall-E 3 when it came out — is competitive or ahead of other SotA base models using just text prompts, the simplest generation workflow, but both more expensive and less adaptable to more involved workflows than the tools anyone more than a casual user (whether using local tools or hosted services) is using. This is station-keeping for OpenAI, not a meaningful change in the landscape.
There are several examples here, especially in the videos that no existing image gen model can do and would require tedious workflows and/or training regimens to replicate, maybe.
It's not 'just' a new model ala Imagen 3. This is 'what if GPT could transform images nearly as well as text?' and that opens up a lot of possibilities. It's definitely a meaningful change.
ChatGPT has already had a that via Dall-E. If it didn't kill those startups when that happened this doesn't fundamentally change anything. Now its got a new image gen model, which — like Dall-E 3 when it came out — is competitive or ahead of other SotA base models using just text prompts, the simplest generation workflow, but both more expensive and less adaptable to more involved workflows than the tools anyone more than a casual user (whether using local tools or hosted services) is using. This is station-keeping for OpenAI, not a meaningful change in the landscape.