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Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by LoganDark »

kfajdsl wrote: post #69
LoganDark wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrary to the downvotes on the above comment I see absolutely zero issue with wanting to be informed of this in advance. I would've made this exact same comment if I had run into it myself.

You would be informed of it when you click on the button and see that it requires a Google account...

Once I click the button I've already decided. If I am surprised by something after I click that would have impacted my decision to click it in the first place, I get very upset for being tricked like that.

As an example: I recently bought a piece of software for my new Mac that I had good experience with some years ago, only to find that it's not compatible with the newer models. Upon contacting support about it, this is a known issue with a whole support article written about it. However, it wasn't mentioned anywhere on the landing page or buy pages. They're working on a beta that will warn you (still after you've already installed the software) if it's not compatible with your machine, but again... if I had known this I would not have purchased in the first place. I feel tricked, and upset. This is the same type of feeling.

Re: BlenderGPT

#182

Post by LoganDark »

Kiro wrote: post #47
LoganDark wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrary to the downvotes on the above comment I see absolutely zero issue with wanting to be informed of this in advance. I would've made this exact same comment if I had run into it myself.

It clearly says "Sign up with Google" before you're prompted with anything. Saying it on the landing page itself as an asterisk next to "free" would just feel stupid, like those overly cautious warning labels, and if anything make me think less of the service.

> It clearly says "Sign up with Google"

After you click the button to try it...

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by Kiro »

LoganDark wrote: post #182
Kiro wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It clearly says "Sign up with Google" before you're prompted with anything. Saying it on the landing page itself as an asterisk next to "free" would just feel stupid, like those overly cautious warning labels, and if anything make me think less of the service.

> It clearly says "Sign up with Google" After you click the button to try it...

So where do you draw the line? Maybe it even needs to be included in the post submission title? It's just ridiculous. Anyone thinking this is a problem needs to get their priorities straight.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by LoganDark »

Kiro wrote: post #183
LoganDark wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It clearly says "Sign up with Google" After you click the button to try it...

So where do you draw the line? Maybe it even needs to be included in the post submission title? It's just ridiculous. Anyone thinking this is a problem needs to get their priorities straight.

> So where do you draw the line? Maybe it even needs to be included in the post submission title? It's just ridiculous. Anyone thinking this is a problem needs to get their priorities straight.

...

I have the same thing for articles where I click on the submission title and there's a paywall. I want to know about the wall before I get there so that I'll know it's not worth the effort. Usually this is achieved by looking in the comments for an archive link so in that case I don't care about there not being a warning in the submission title because the comments allow me to enjoy the content anyway. In this case there's no need for a warning in the submission title because I go to the website and I get a neat idea, that's fine, no wall yet. There's a button to try it and that's where the warning should be that a Google account is required. Your argument is what's ridiculous.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407232

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by davidatbu »

brailsafe wrote: post #107
knowitnone wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, because we're curious and this is a place where curious critical technology enthusiasts gravitate. If it doesn't do anything novel _at_all_ or if there's no story to elaborate on, go to Reddit. Plus, many are probably tired of seeing the same thing being made repeatedly that just proxys requests to chatgpt and makes them look pretty.

I'm curious: don't you think the aggregate interest of the HN crowd is adequately measured via the voting mechanism? You seem not to find BlenderGPT as presented in its current form uninteresting, but if you accept that (voting up)=interest, many other people did. Why dismiss("go to Reddit" comment) someone else's work, that, evidently, many other HNers find interesting?

Re: BlenderGPT

#186

Post by loliver666 »

idiocache wrote: post #98

Kid's getting way too much hate for what seems to be quite a cool project! Oh he "just" put a UI in front of Trellis? Yes. He did. You didn't. Keep up the good work, gd3kr :)

I dont think he's getting enough hate for using AI to do traditionally creative work. Thanks for making the future worse asshole.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by Modified3019 »

999900000999 wrote: post #65
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…

This is much better than I expected. I first asked it to generate "The last MC left" and it crested a 3rd model of a microphone. Not winning any awards, but it's a decent model I could imagine a professional using as a template ( also works for props in the background). The I asked it to generate "Heavy D and the Boy's"( RIP to Heavy D) and it tried to generate models of a rap group, the face textures aren't great. M…

>and it crested a

I sat for too long trying to rationalize how the cresting of a wave became a synonym/analogous for “produce”, before I realized it was just a simple misspelling (or autocorrect) of “created”.

It kinda works honestly, I’ve seen far worse deliberate turns of phrase.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by cchance »

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.

Ya trellis i think is the current best, i'd imagine what the OPS site is doing is a txt2img+rembg into trellis or another model, and then converted to a blender format... its a nice workflow, though he says he downgraded to a less intense model to save compute right now... which is pretty obvious, it should mention somewhere which model it is currently using

Re: BlenderGPT

#189

Post by cchance »

xnx wrote: post #90
adroitboss wrote: post #74

Is this just a wrapper around the Microsoft project released a few days ago? https://trellis3d.github.io/

That seems to be the main part of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400537

Well he says he switched to a less intense model to handle the traffic thats more crude, so i don't think its currently using trellis

Re: BlenderGPT

#190

Post by cchance »

cbartlett wrote: post #48

Blender is a registered trademark, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with blender. I'm not sure GPT is safe or even correct either.

It has a quick export to blender format is why i imagine it named that
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