Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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European regulation. I cannot share anything. But I was very, I was like, wow. And, but this shows like, so you make something and then if it takes off very fast, you're like, it's validated. You know, you're like, here's something that people really want. But then also I thought this is hype. This is going to die down very fast. And it did. Because it's too cheesy.
Okay, so that's actually in many ways the easiest thing because there is all these platforms already back then. There was platforms for fine-tune stable diffusion. Like now I use Replicate. Back then I used different platforms, which was funny because that platform, when this thing took off, I would tweet because I tweet always like how much money these websites make.
And then so the, you call it vendor, right? The platform that did the GPUs, they increased their price for training from $3 to $20 after they saw that I was making so much money. So immediately my profit is gone because I was selling them for $30. And I was in a slack with them saying, what is this? Can you just put it back to $3? They say, yeah, maybe in the future.
We're looking at it right now. I'm like, what are you talking about? You just took all my money, you know? And they're smart.
I think it's kind of dirty to cancel a company or something. I prefer just bringing my business elsewhere. But there was no elsewhere back then. Right. So I started talking to other AI model ML platforms. So Replicate was on those platforms. And I started DMing the CEO, say, can you please create, like, it's called Dreambooth, this fine tuning of yourself. Can you add this to your site?
Because I need this because I'm being price guzzed. And he said, no, because it takes too long to run. It takes half an hour to run and we don't have the GPUs for it. I said, please, please, please. And then after a week, he said, we're doing it. We're launching this. And Then this company became, it was like not very famous company.
It became very famous with this stuff because suddenly everybody was like, oh, we can build similar apps, like avatar apps. And everybody started building avatar apps and everybody started using Replicate for it. And it was from these early DMs with like the CEO, like Ben Furrish, very nice guy. And he was like, they never priced gouge me. They never treated me bad. They always been very nice.
It's a very cool company. So you can run any ML model, any AI model, LLMs, you can run on here.
Yes, they scale. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, you can do now. You can click on the model and just run it already. It's like super easy. You log in with GitHub. That's great. And by running it on the website, then you can automate with the API. You can make a website that runs the model.
They do anything, yeah. It's a very cool company.
Yeah. The website even looks weird now. It started as a machine learning platform. I didn't even understand what it did. It was just too... To ML, you know, like you would understand because you're in the ML world. I wouldn't understand.
Yeah, exactly. And I didn't know how it worked. But I knew that they could probably do this. And they did it. They built the models and now I use them for everything. And we trained like, I think now like 36,000 models, 36,000 people already trained.
Like how do you like... Yes, man, there's so many hacks.
It's like a hundred hacks to make it work.
I think people... Well, man, it's a little thing. People don't know how they look. So they generate photos of themselves and then they say, ah, it doesn't look like me. But you can check the training photos, it does look like you, but you don't know how you look. So there's a face dysmorphia of yourself that you have no idea how you look.
I know that if I would make a selfie, how I think I look, that's nice. Other people think that's not nice. But then they make a photo of me. I'm like, that's super ugly. But then they're like, no, that's how you look and you look nice. So how other people see you is nice. So you need to ask other people to choose your photos. You shouldn't choose them yourself because you don't know how you look.
I learned from the hammerhead shark eyes this stuff about you that looks ugly to you and it's probably that what makes you original makes you nice and people like it about you. And it's not like, oh my God, And people notice it. People notice your hammerhead eyes, you know? But it's like, that's me. That's my face. So I love myself. And that's confidence. And confidence is attractive.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah. One thing that worked was like people would upload full body photos of themselves. So I would crop the face, right? Because then the model knew better that we're training mostly the face here. But then I started losing resemblance of the body because some people are skinny, some people are muscular, whatever. So you want to have that too.
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