Anonymous
6/20/2025, 8:21:32 AM
No.105648624
>>105648355
>people don't make local models because there's no way to monetize them
There actually is. Photoshop has thrived for so long for a reason. Modelmakers simply are retarded. Midjourney's business model can be copied over to local, but companies are too scared to innovate. All they have to do is build a community, whether discord or their own website where creations can be directly shared, offer a monthly subscription, allow users without the hardware to gen using theirs, but that's not all, here's the pivotal part: Instead of being an idiot (E.G. Stability) who lives finetuning up to the community, you iterate on your model, which is currently only done by MJ. You finetune it to add artists and you deliver updates to this paid SaaS over time, and that will make it worth it for everyone involved in paying for it.
SaaS doesn't have to be exclusively model gatekeeping, they can give us the model and just keep improving it month after month. If MJ gave us their model they wouldn't lose many subscribers. Most people who pay aren't really open source users. They only pay for that shit because it's a high quality model knows all the artists, characters and mediums they prompt for, whereas the same can't be said for local which has never had any official support for these things from anyone.
>people don't make local models because there's no way to monetize them
There actually is. Photoshop has thrived for so long for a reason. Modelmakers simply are retarded. Midjourney's business model can be copied over to local, but companies are too scared to innovate. All they have to do is build a community, whether discord or their own website where creations can be directly shared, offer a monthly subscription, allow users without the hardware to gen using theirs, but that's not all, here's the pivotal part: Instead of being an idiot (E.G. Stability) who lives finetuning up to the community, you iterate on your model, which is currently only done by MJ. You finetune it to add artists and you deliver updates to this paid SaaS over time, and that will make it worth it for everyone involved in paying for it.
SaaS doesn't have to be exclusively model gatekeeping, they can give us the model and just keep improving it month after month. If MJ gave us their model they wouldn't lose many subscribers. Most people who pay aren't really open source users. They only pay for that shit because it's a high quality model knows all the artists, characters and mediums they prompt for, whereas the same can't be said for local which has never had any official support for these things from anyone.