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By that logic, no one should build a startup that generates tattoos then?

Speak to average, non-technical users. You'd be surprised how many people have a very vague idea what ChatGPT is capable of. They aren't using it everyday like you and I. Relating this back to original comment, expecting them to know about effective prompting techniques, Stable Diffusion etc is unrealistic.

One of the reasons OpenAI offers APIs, is so you can build startups on top of their tech for average non-technical users.

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> By that logic, no one should build a startup that generates tattoos then?

Is this like a law of the universe I'm not aware of, that you must be able to create a profitable startup that generates tattoo ideas?

> One of the reasons OpenAI offers APIs, is so you can build startups on top of their tech for average non-technical users.

A profitable product will make use of APIs to do something that a user couldn't do almost just as well by just prompting ChatGPT themselves.

It's funny that we went from "ChatGPT is going to unlock AGI and displace millions of workers" to "the only thing that came out of ChatGPT is a million of API wrappers that do nothing worthwhile at all" in like two years.

I mean it's basically the same thing as NFT/crypto grifters, just on a different tech stack. It's not about actually solving problems, it's about speculation to them.

Time to make a markov chain as a service startup...

> "the only thing that came out of ChatGPT is a million of API wrappers that do nothing worthwhile at all"

It’s because the base service does so much that people feel the wrappers aren’t needed, not because there are no real use cases for LLMs.

> Is this like a law of the universe I'm not aware of, that you must be able to create a profitable startup that generates tattoo ideas?

That's not what I said. Your question/argument was why build a wrapper when someone can go to ChatGPT and generate a tattoo. You can make that argument for any startup that wraps AI image models. If everyone followed that argument, there would be no startups in this space.

> A profitable product will make use of APIs to do something that a user couldn't do almost just as well by just prompting ChatGPT themselves

Exactly, average users won't know how to steer ChatGPT to generate high quality tattoos. In fact, OP is not even using an OpenAI model, they are using Flux which has no direct consumer interface (from the creators of Flux) and much higher quality image generation.

I wish OP success on his project.

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