https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1838581688017846328

  • bortsampson [he/him, any]
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    4 hours ago

    Depends on texture size and model. The models before LLMs and SDF hype are extremely efficient with the right libraries. Without getting to into the weeds these older ones are no different then doing any other image processing (like applying a gauss blur on 8k image or something). Newer stuff uses diffusion models. So something like a 500x500 texture probably is the equivalent to leaving 25 watt lightbulb on for an hour at worst. But you do it once and it repeats so it's efficient. I know the early models were trained on cropped animal patterns, zoomed in materials, and other very vanilla datasets.

      • bortsampson [he/him, any]
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        3 hours ago

        No problem. It's appalling companys are pushing this out at scale and virtually uncapped. These models use as much power as large scale scientific simulations/models. Video more so. You don't want a lot of people running these concurrently. VERY BAD lol