GPU Providers to build a network for "f*ck*ng" AI generative sampler

[ghettosynth]

I just wanted to drop a note. KVR has these tiny pockets of overly vocal people who embrace AI and try to convince everyone that it’s just inevitable and even appealing, even though they are just a tiny minority percentage of actual musicians, who themselves are either nihilists, selfish opportunists, or total grifting sociopaths that don’t care about the world or anyone else but themselves. It’s funny really.

Anyway, I’ll leave it at that for now.

I'm fine with the concept of AI... I do think it will be a short lived social experiment. It just costs too much. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are losing vast amounts of money every month and have no path to change that. If they start charging what it actually costs, hardly anyone is going to use it.

I'm sure it will live on in some form... but we might already be at the peak of the AI boom (hastened by the economic impact of the war on Iran). I predict OpenAI will be out of business (as we know it) within 2-3 years.

This is off topic in this guy's thread about his product and network. I think you know that.

[Innermost]

I just wanted to drop a note. KVR is pretty hot-headed about their anti-AI stance. It's funny really. At any rate. I installed it to play with it a bit. I used your server on Linux and configured the environment to use just one GPU. I disabled the plugin build in the install and just downloaded the plugin, that might be a part of my issues below.

For me, the anti-AI story does nothing but caters to people who would never really be customers anyway. From the POV of someone who would use such a tool, the models are not up to the task. Additionally, the interface is tediously frustrating. Multiple times I could not get it to take a new prompt. I had to unload the plugin and reload. I tried resetting the U/I. Again, I didn't build the VST3 fresh for my system.

I'll continue to play with it a bit. I might whip up what I think is a useful U/I for my own use case to play against your server. I'm using Reaper on Linux if that matters to you. I'll be glad to contribute to the conversation here when I can if it helps.

As far as the network, I can see what you're trying to do, it's cool, and I wish you luck, but if you're trying to create a product then I'd focus on the SaaS and find the customers that need that. Internet latency is not going to be kind. That's just my opinion, it's worth everything that you paid for it.

Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now.

Hey, thanks for the honest feedback, that's exactly the kind of input I need. The prompt not updating without reloading is a real bug, I'll look into it.
Also worth noting: as of today the network is running Foundation-1 by RoyalCities instead of Stable Audio Open, which addresses the model quality concern. On top of that, I had a poor time-stretching algorithm that was degrading audio quality (classic "underwater" sound), that's fixed too, now using Rubberband R3.
Would love to hear more when you've had more time with it on Reaper/Linux.