I think the main problem is with 2) since 1 is entirely up to the content creator's discretion.

I will not be surprised if YouTube figures out a way to make content creators pay a portion of their sponsored content.

They’re already going after sponsor reads.

On iOS with YouTube premium, I get a button prompt asking if I want to skip a commonly skipped sections.

9/10 it’s the sponsor read. The remaining 1/10 is patreon

I haven’t seen much about it so I’m not sure if im in an A/B test

Didn't Twitch try to do this?

The backlash from Twitch's attempt may well be why Youtube isn't doing it

i don't think anyone has done real-time multi-speaker dialog generation before

Liability. Till we solve this, we cant really give AI any real responsibilities.

Human CEOs generally aren't held liable for their actions, so why would AI need to be? Once again, I think we're just smoothing out a wrinkle here.

I know this is more of a throwaway cynical quip, but this is a biased line of thinking. CEO's are, for obvious reasons, more likely to do things they wouldn't be held liable for, versus do things which would see them likely to be punished. So executives might, for example, get away with things by successfully skirting the line of legality.

Say an AI CEO blatantly crosses this line, now who is liable?

It's a cheese touch situation. Last human to make a decision.

I think as long as the LLM can "take full responsibility", there should be no objections from the shareholders.

Imagine saving an extra $50m per year? Yes, please!

It is already used widely across industries where one would think people should be more conservative ( healthcare transcription services come to mind, but it is hardly the only example of this ). As always in America, only lawsuits will shows us how the dust has settled.

It excels at particularly text and scene composition, as well as being able to generate vector graphics. You can use it through their website or through fal.ai https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/recraft-v3/playground.

Much faster than OpenAI's real-time mode, wow! Quality seems to be on par if not better as well.

Did we watch the same video? OpenAI's model is faster, and the quality is far better.

Forget the video. Try it.

I use OpenAI's voice models a lot and I have access to them all and I'm honestly more impressed with the ease at which one can conduct a conversation with this voice model.

Honestly, this feels like the first voice model I would pilot as a customer service rep in a hospitality setting.

all high end "gaming" rigs are either using ~16 real cores or 8:24 performance/efficiency cores these days. threadripper/other HEDT options are not particularly good at gaming due to (relatively) lower clock speed / inter-CCD latencies.

running a much worse model at a higher latency (since local GPU power is limited) is a worse experience for Zed.

FLUX.1 [schnell] (Apache 2.0): https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell

FLUX.1 [dev] (non-commercial, weights-available): https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev (Mindtown has a commercial license so all the images generated through it can be used for whatever purpose)

Was this an Inflection.ai style acquisition considering C.AI was profitable?

In contrast to something like Adept.ai, this appears just be the CEO + some key employees exiting, not a complete team poaching that leaves the company a shell of what it was.

It doesn't necessairly imply Character.ai's business isn't doing well, but a CEO leaving is still indeed weird.

do we know they were profitable? I doubt it, if they pulled this. I think they had high DAU/MAU but low paid users.

this is basically Inflection 2.0.

All public information about their finances only mentions their revenue, not their profits, which means they're almost certainly not profitable.

I would be absolutely floored if any of these new crop of AI companies set profitable

They are likely unprofitable.

You can try the models here:

(available without sign-in) FLUX.1 [schnell] (Apache 2.0, open weights, step distilled): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/schnell

(requires sign-in) FLUX.1 [dev] (non-commercial, open weights, guidance distilled): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/dev

FLUX.1 [pro] (closed source [only available thru APIs], SOTA, raw): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux-pro

> (available without sign-in) FLUX.1 [schnell] (Apache 2.0, open weights, step distilled): https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/schnell

Well, I was wondering about bias in the model, so I entered "a president" as the prompt. Looks like it has a bias alright, but it's even more specific than I expected...

You weren’t kidding. Tried three times and all three were variations of the same[0].

[0] https://fal.media/files/elephant/gu3ZQ46_53BUV6lptexEh.png

The interesting part is that it does a good Joe Biden, but Trump always looks weird and alien.

https://imgur.com/a/fgf6Jt3

What is the difference between schnell and dev? Just the kind of distillation?

>FLUX.1 [dev]: The base model

>FLUX.1 [schnell]: A distilled version of the base model that operates up to 10 times faster

It should also be noted that "schnell" is the German word for "fast".

Not quite right, per their github repo:

> Models

> We are offering three models:

> FLUX.1 [pro] the base model, available via API

> FLUX.1 [dev] guidance-distilled variant

> FLUX.1 [schnell] guidance and step-distilled variant

Schnell is definitely worse in quality, although still impressive (it gets text right). Dev is the really good one that arguably outperforms the new Midjourney 6.1

Also worth mentioning schnell is a 4-step model, so comparable to SD lightning in that regard

What's the difference between pro and dev? Is the pro one also 12B parameters? Are the example images on the site (the patagonia guy, lego and the beach potato) generated with dev or pro?

I think they are mainly -dev and -schnell. Both models are 12B. -pro is the most powerful and raw, -dev is guidance distilled version of it and -schnell is step distilled version (where you can get pretty good results with 2-8 steps).

what does guidance distilled mean?

something about pro must be better than dev or it wouldn't be made API-only, but what exactly, how does guidance distilling affect pro it and what quality remains in dev?

Requires sign-in with a GitHub account, unfortunately.

I think they may have turned on the gating some time after this was submitted to HackerNews. Earlier this morning I definitely ran the model several times without signing in at all (not via GitHub, not via anything). But now it says "Sign in to run".

i just updated the links to clarify which models require sign-in and which doesn't!