> > They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy.
> People said similar things about those early NNs generating images, code, music.
Yes and… they still are expensive, bulky, and creepy. The expense and bulk is externalised to the stock market (but maybe improving), the creepy is endemic and not getting any better.
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase is funded by customers, not investors. Anything in there that's creepy, but not obviously intentionally creepy, is more a reflection on the viewer than the image :P
> People said similar things about those early NNs generating images, code, music.
Yes and… they still are expensive, bulky, and creepy. The expense and bulk is externalised to the stock market (but maybe improving), the creepy is endemic and not getting any better.