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Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by wincy »

abraxas wrote: post #16

What's the technical underpinning of this? Is this a novel prompt to 3D technique or is this a user interface on something preexisting?

I’d hazard a guess that this is using the Microsoft Trellis [0] open source project released last week. You can download the weights and the code right now, just need an Nvidia GPU with at least 16GB vram.

I saw people doing this manually on X last Friday, using FLUX diffusion model -> Trellis -> Blender

[0] https://trellis3d.github.io/

Re: BlenderGPT

#22

Post by KMnO4 »

terminalbraid wrote: post #7
gregjw wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering infra costs, it kind of is worthless, they aren't about to start selling advertising on their AI tool. I'd assume the reason they have auth is so they don't get botted and it absolutely bricks their servers.

I don't disagree with you. It should not be billed as "free" without qualification. It should read "free with google account".

The usage of "free" is almost always used when referring to something that can be obtained/used without exchanging money.

Google is not requiring you to pay for an account. Even if they were, you could still complain that this is not "free without an active internet subscription", or "free without owning a device that can connect to the internet", or "free without taking up 5 minutes of my time".

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by m3kw9 »

I thought it was a demo, but when I put in a prompt, it popped up with a hand asking for money first. I’m not paying without trying it out first.

Re: BlenderGPT

#24

Post by Vampiero »

terminalbraid wrote: post #7
gregjw wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering infra costs, it kind of is worthless, they aren't about to start selling advertising on their AI tool. I'd assume the reason they have auth is so they don't get botted and it absolutely bricks their servers.

I don't disagree with you. It should not be billed as "free" without qualification. It should read "free with google account".

... You can also sign up with email.

Re: BlenderGPT

#25

Post by throw646577 »

Retr0id wrote: post #17
throw646577 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That ship has sailed. Along with the good ship capital letters at the beginning of sentences. It's a GenAI subculture signifier. Utterly tiresome; HN and the tech web is riddled with it.

> It's a GenAI subculture signifier Presumably, the point is to be a "written by a human" signifier

The signifier is to sound and write like Sam Altman, I think. It's perfectly possible to write in a style that doesn't sound like ChatGPT, which has the tone of a collection of college admissions essays written by perky, shallow people with no life experience.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by mnau »

terminalbraid wrote: post #3

"Try it out for free!" Demands a google account, as if my personal info is somehow worthless.

Just make a new Google account. It's not like you have to fill correct info and you can make two accounts with same phone number (at least I could ~1 year ago).

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by doener »

"I am quite suspicious of this project. In particular I want to draw attention to the nonsensical naming scheme (this is clearly not related to anything to do with GPT) suggestive of lack of understanding of the relevant technology, an absence of a usable demo, and the fact that they show the same small handful of models over and over again. The input images do not appear natural at all - almost as though he’s just taken the 3d models he’s supposed to be „generating“ and rendered them in Blender. The quality of the models and the resulting PBR textures are extremely high, with no noticeable imperfections whatsoever. This is not impossible… but all of these things combined lead me to be very sceptical of this service. I will believe it when I see it!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gk8x5j/blende...

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by [deleted] »

Retr0id wrote: post #17
throw646577 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That ship has sailed. Along with the good ship capital letters at the beginning of sentences. It's a GenAI subculture signifier. Utterly tiresome; HN and the tech web is riddled with it.

> It's a GenAI subculture signifier Presumably, the point is to be a "written by a human" signifier

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Re: BlenderGPT

#30

Post by bogwog »

wincy wrote: post #21
abraxas wrote: post #16

What's the technical underpinning of this? Is this a novel prompt to 3D technique or is this a user interface on something preexisting?

I’d hazard a guess that this is using the Microsoft Trellis [0] open source project released last week. You can download the weights and the code right now, just need an Nvidia GPU with at least 16GB vram. I saw people doing this manually on X last Friday, using FLUX diffusion model -> Trellis -> Blender [0] https://trellis3d.github.io/

I thought the exact same thing, especially considering how bare bones the site/app is. It's as if someone rushed to turn that into a subscription-based app as quickly as possible.

I wouldn't even be surprised if the app itself was AI generated!

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