Because he's sunk billions into his shitty ai service and he's hellbent to use it even if he's the only person on earth doing so.
The image generation is either just base Flux (open source model developed by a completely unrelated research team) or some in-house finetune of it that reasonably wouldn't take more than a hundred thousand between buying the equipment and paying one person to poke at it and feed it training data (shitty memes posted to twitter, presumably), but knowing who we're talking about he's probably been throwing millions at some lucky grifters for work that a single hobbyist could do with a few thousand dollars worth of server time from a service like civitai.
Because he's sunk billions into his shitty ai service and he's hellbent to use it even if he's the only person on earth doing so.
The image generation is either just base Flux (open source model developed by a completely unrelated research team) or some in-house finetune of it that reasonably wouldn't take more than a hundred thousand between buying the equipment and paying one person to poke at it and feed it training data (shitty memes posted to twitter, presumably), but knowing who we're talking about he's probably been throwing millions at some lucky grifters for work that a single hobbyist could do with a few thousand dollars worth of server time from a service like civitai.
while it would be fun to fleece him I don't think I could do the required sycophant routine to avoid getting fired
I think I could findom him. He's so transparent that I'd bet if you push the right button he'd be licking your boots.
Good, go with that.
It's bad even by AI standards.