Technology

Uh no, I run Flux on my 8gb card no problem. Takes about 4 mins per render.

I bought a blue checkmark so I could use Grok.

My buddy, literally today.

I only checked replicate api but you can generate 333 images for $1. Ofc takes some know-how but it's cheap if you can get it set up

There are a series of quants available at much smaller sizes such that you don't need the full size model. The full fp16 model is 23 GB but the fp8 quant is half that, and there are GGUF quants down to 6.8 GB.

I don't think he will get that joke.

At the top level poster: you wrote "two" instead of "too".

Well it's free it's just rate limited. Which makes sense given the amount of processing capacity that is required.

Like I said, its monetary value is of no consequence to him, even if he loses it tomorrow he'll still be one of the richest people on earth by a long way. And it's certainly more than a toy to him, and while he might often act like a petulant manchild, don't think for a second that he doesn't know exactly what he's doing (not only with twitter, but with embedding his interests in defence and space agencies for example, without having to personally know anything about running or operating in those industries either).

And it's nothing out of the ordinary either, all main stream media is owned by other billionaires doing exactly the same, only they're better at or at least more invested in keeping the mask on.

he was forced to buy it with one of the worst deals in history if not the worst,

Was it though, since he's got exactly what he wants (and for what to him is a literal pittance)?

Your understanding of the deal from the perspective of someone who probably can't even imagine the scale of how much a billion dollars actually is, never mind a couple hundred billion (which will remain at a couple of hundred billion with or without twitter), and doesn't have his eye set on global domination, clearly isn't his.

I hate him as much as the next person, but the idea that he's just coincidentally fumbling perfectly through every step of the fascism playbook (or that doing so is "5D chess" rather than the natural state of a billionaire) is naive and uninformed at best, and laughable either way.

it could definitely cause him some serious damage.

You clearly don't understand just how much hundreds of billions of dollars is.

Try this:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

I thought they already did...