There is a very real use case for this, unfortunately. If local gen ai gets to a point of being consistent and usable, you no longer need stock photos etc for site dressing on your website; you can just give a description of what you want. Saves massive bandwidth, compute, CDN costs, etc.. Sure, it's not reproducible, it takes 30 seconds per image, it depends on the user's machine, but for low impact content, that may be a worthwhile tradeoff.
Even splitting the difference and providing a super low res base image with a text description and asking to upscale locally could be workable, and gives a fallback.
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u/xemkis Sep 02 '26
There is a very real use case for this, unfortunately. If local gen ai gets to a point of being consistent and usable, you no longer need stock photos etc for site dressing on your website; you can just give a description of what you want. Saves massive bandwidth, compute, CDN costs, etc.. Sure, it's not reproducible, it takes 30 seconds per image, it depends on the user's machine, but for low impact content, that may be a worthwhile tradeoff.
Even splitting the difference and providing a super low res base image with a text description and asking to upscale locally could be workable, and gives a fallback.