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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of Replicate.
20 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
“Now, I use Replicate, back then I used different platforms, which was funny because that platform, when this thing took off, I would tweet…”
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- Pieter Levels
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- 20 Aug 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…But you have to automate the whole thing. How’d you automate it? So, what’s the AI component? How hard was that to figure out? 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. 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, 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,” and they’re smart. Well, they’re not that smart, because you also have a large platform, and a lot of people respect you, so you can literally come out and say that, but they’re not-…
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