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Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by mnau »

plipt wrote: post #112
mnau wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I appreciate you sharing this. However are you not concerned that Google might flag your accounts as being somehow fraudulent? And then get locked out of your digital identity? Maybe I am too reliant on my gmail account.

Not really. They have official help topic as well as UI to switch accounts: Sign in to multiple accounts at once.

I literally have same phone number at both, so it would be easiest thing in the world to add verification for uniqueness of the phone number.

It's not like I am making tens or even thousands of accounts or doing anything nefarious with them. Just having my "official" account and "throwaway" account.

Can google ban happy ban me? Sure, if that happens, it happens. I lost access to my email before (small national provider from days before the internet was big, it just stopped working one day). But that can happen anyway, but I don't see any policy that would suggest that (at least nothing in first page of google suggest that).

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

I want something a little related to this. I want a little auto assist tool in Blender so I can hit a keyboard shortcut, circle something, and say "extrude a square right around this area" or "close this mesh" or "make this shell a solid object." Stuff that an experienced Blender artist knows exactly how to do but might require some thinking. In other words, coding auto-assist for Blender user. Bonus points if it shows the steps.

Is that a thing?

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by GrantMoyer »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #102
GrantMoyer wrote: post #41

Is BlenderGPT really a registered trademark? Surely it infringes on Blender's (unregistered) trademark, but maybe the registration process only reviews exisiting registered marks, and it'd be up to the Blender Foundation to challenge the use of BlenderGPT. On the other hand, the USPTO trademark search didn't turn up any relevant results for BlenderGPT even though the terms of service on the site seem to indicate a US…

"Unregistered"? Blender is a registered trademark in both the US and the EU. Their brand guideline page explicitly calls out that you are not allowed to use their name in your own product: https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

Oh, huh. I assumed it was not registered since Blender uses "™" instead of "®" at the top of its homepage. I guess that's just for the logo then, not the wordmark.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by bangaladore »

xnx wrote: post #70

Anyone interested in this type of thing should check out the free and open source TRELLIS: https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS Upload an image and it outputs a 3D model. Use a separate image generator to make a model of anything you can imagine.

I took a masked image of a tank from a game, in a perspective format, presumably the best case for these models.

Trellis did far worse than BlenderGPT. Particularly Trellis tends to have little to no detail with nearly black texturing in the parts that are "hardest" to imagine.

Somewhat interesting as this seems to use Trellis under the hood, but again, this did a substantially better job.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by CivBase »

Very cool, but I don't think I understand the pricing.

$20/mo gets me 50 credits/mo, but I can buy 50 credits at any time for just $10? Sounds like the subscription is asking me to pay double for the same number of credits.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by ronsor »

yuvalr1 wrote: post #137
gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

Hi aarya! A really amazing project. I would really love using this tool, and other GenAI tools to generate art. There is one recurring problem that I don't know the answer to: how could I know that no one is going to sue me for using this kind of tool for copyright infringement? How can I know that the model I generate is not too similar or copying some artist's style somewhere?

Not OP, but the answers are:

1. People can sue you for any reason, whether legitimate or not, regardless of what you do

2. Copying style is not copyright infringement, as copyright does not cover style

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by arresin »

pkkkzip wrote: post #148
vunderba wrote: post #121

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Give me a break. The site's ad copy: "BlenderGPT is an advanced artificial intelligence program that creates 3D models from text or image prompts in ~20 seconds. It lets you synthesise fully textured meshes, then import directly to Blender with a shortcut or download the source files for use in any compatible software. We think it's really good, try it out for free now." It's very deliberately posing itself as having…

I can definitely see why people were upset but I think they are reading a bit too much into it. We all know its a wrapper now but makes little to no difference in reality. What I'm more disappointed in is that BlenderGPT aka TRELLIS is still not capable of producing truly segmented 3d mesh. The generated output is simply just a blob and not capable of replacing actual 3d modelers (yet). I've already seen so many clai…

I didn’t know until reading the comments

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by ilaksh »

knowitnone wrote: post #81
fourside wrote: post #40

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Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” whe…

why does it matter how it works? Either it works and people pay for it or it doesn't. Does every company owe you, the end user, an explanation on how their product works? While you're at it, maybe you can get all the secret recipes.

I think that's a fair point that not every company owes the end user a recipe for how to reproduce their product.

However, it's also a fair question on Hacker News. Again, fair if they chose not to answer it.. but many people here are programmers.

Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it.

I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender

Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by ceroxylon »

It's cool and useful for granular editing, but tools like Kling, Sora, and Runway will make this step irrelevant in the next few years, in my opinion.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by griomnib »

mrtksn wrote: post #63
griomnib wrote: post #57

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Other than the fear of randomly losing it with no recourse, I'm using this account for more than 20 years now and I'm fine had no issues. Definitely not malware.

Depends if you count violating data protection law is a crime or not.
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