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  1. “You should do this, and you should probably do it yourself. Like, you can use Fotio, but it's even more fun if you do it yourself so you train the models, you can learn about like control net, control net is where, for example, your photos and your podcasts are usually like from the angle, right? So you can create a control net face post that's always like this. So every model, every photo generate uses this control net pose, for example. I think it would be very fun for you to try out that stuff.”

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  2. “Yeah, and I think this is very common, they called gear acquisition syndrome, like gas, like people in any industry do this. They just buy all the stuff. There was a meme riskling, like, you buy, what's the name for the guy that buys all the stuff before he even started doing the hobby, right? Marketing, you know, marketing does that to people. They want to buy this stuff. Like, man You can make a Hollywood movie on an iPhone, you know, if the content is good enough. And it will probably be original because you would be using an iPhone for it, you know?”

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  3. “Yeah, and look at you. You're like one of the top podcasts in the world, and you get millions of views, and it works, and the people that spend so much money on optimizing for the best sound, for the best studio, they get like 300 views, you know? So what is this about? This is about that. Either you do it really well, or also that a lot of these things don't matter. Like, what matters is probably the content of the podcast. Like, you get interesting guests.”

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  4. “Outside inside. But there's no problem. There's no manual for this, and nobody knew. We were all just, especially two years ago, we're all hacking, trying to test anything, anything you can think of. And it's frustrating. It's one of the most frustrating and also fun and challenging things to do because with AI. It's a black box, and like Carpathi, I think, says this, we don't really know how this thing works, but it does something, but nobody really knows why, right? Like we cannot look into the model of an LLM. Like what is actually in there? We just know it's like a 3D matrix of numbers, right? So it's very frustrating because some things that would be, you think they're obvious that they will improve things will make them worse. And there's so many parameters you can tweak. So you're testing everything. to improve things.”

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  5. “Like the photos should be diverse. So, for example, if I only upload photos with a brown shirt or green shirt, the multiple thing that I'm training the green shirt. So, the things that are the same every photo are the concepts that are trained. What you want is your face to be the concept of trains and everything else to be diverse, like different.”

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  6. “Yeah, one thing that worked was like people would upload full body photos themselves. So I would crop the face, right? Because then the model knew better that we're training mostly the face here. But then I started losing resemblance of the body because some people are skinny, some people are muscular, whatever. So you want to have that too. So now I mix full body photos in the training with face photos, face crops. And it's all automatic. And I know that other people, they use, again, AI models to detect what are the best photos in this training set and then train on those. But it's all about training data. And it's with everything in AI. Like how good your training data is is in many ways more important than how many steps you train for, like how many months or whatever with the GPUs.”

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  7. “And it's not like, oh my god. And people notice it. People notice your hammerhead eyes, you know. But it's like, that's me. That's my face. So I love myself. And that's confidence and confidence attractive.”

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  8. “Learned from the Hammerhead Shark Eyes Stuff about it that looks ugly to you, and it's probably that what makes you original, makes you nice, and people like it about you.”

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  9. “I know that I would make a selfie how I think I look, that's nice. Other people think that's not nice, but then they make a photo of me. I'm like, that's super ugly. But then they're like, no, that's how you look and you look nice. You know, so how other people see you is nice. So you need to ask other people to choose your photos. Yeah. You shouldn't choose them yourself because you don't know how you look.”

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  10. “Generate photos of themselves and then they say, Ah, it doesn't look like me. You can check the training forms. It does look like you But you don't know how you look, so there's a face dysmorphia. Yourself that you have known”

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  11. “Yeah, exactly And I didn't know how it worked, but I knew that they could probably do this. And they did it. They built the models. And now I use them for everything. And we trained like, I think now like 36,000 models already.”

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  12. “Yeah, like the website even looks weird now. It started as a machine learning platform. Was like, I didn't even understand what it did, it was just too ML, you know, like you would understand because you're in the ML world. I wouldn't understand it.”

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  13. “And I mean, you can do now, you can click on the model and just run it already. It's like super easy. You log in with GitHub. By running it on the website, then you can automate with the API, you can make a website that runs the model”

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  14. “So I started talking to other AI model ML platforms. So Replicate was on those platforms and I started DMing the CEO, say, can you please create like, it's called Dream Booth, this fine-tuning of yourself. Can you add this to your site? Because I need this because I'm being priceed. And he said, no, because it takes too long to run. It takes half an hour to run. And we don't have the GPUs for it. I said, please, please, please. And then after a week, they said, we're doing it. We're launching this. Then this company became, it was like not very famous company. It became very famous with this stuff because suddenly everybody was like, oh, we can build similar apps, like avatar apps and everybody started building off their apps and everybody started using replicate for it. And that was from these early DMs with like the CEO, like Ben Firrish, very nice guy. And he was like, they never price me. They never treated me bad. They always be very nice. It's a very cool company. So you can run any ML model, any AI model, LLMs. You can run on here.”

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  15. “I think it's like kind of dirty to cancel a company or something. I prefer just bringing my business elsewhere. But there was no elsewhere back then.”

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  16. “So that's actually in many ways the easiest thing because there is all these platforms already back then, there were platforms for fine-tune stable diffusion. Like now I use replicate. Back then I use 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 the 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 like saying, what is this? Like, can you just put it back to $3? They said, yeah, maybe in the future, we're looking at it right now. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, you just took all my money, you know, and they're smart.”

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  17. “GDPR, you know, their privacy, European regulation, I cannot share anything. But I was very, I was like, wow. But this shows like so you make something, and then if it takes off very fast, you're like, it's validated, you know? You're like, here's something that people really want. But then also I thought this is hype. This is going to die down very fast. And it did because it's too cheesy.”

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  18. “Yeah, and then you know who signed up. Like, man, I cannot say, but really famous people, like really, really like billionaires. Famous tech billionaires did it. And I was like, wow, this is crazy. And I sent, I was like, so scared to mess them. So I said, thanks so much for using my sites He's like, yeah, amazing app, great work. So it's like, this is different than normal reaction, you know.”

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  19. “Yes, and then because do things don't skill Paul Graham says, right? And then I would train it and I would email them the photos from my personal email. Say, here's your avatars. And they liked it. They were like, wow, it's amazing.”

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  20. “And I think within the first 24 hours was, I'm not sure it was like a thousand customers or something. But the problem was I didn't have code to automate this. So I had to do manually. So the first few hundred, I just literally took their photos, trained them, and then I would generate the photos with the prompts and had this text file with the prompts and I would do everything manually. And this quickly became way too much. But that's another constraint. Like I was forced to code something up that would do that. And that was essentially making it into a real website, right?”

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  21. “Then I added a tie form link. So TIFE form is a site where you can create your own input form like Google Forms. So they would get an email with a link to the type form or actually just a link after the checkout. And they could upload their photos. So enter their email, upload the photos. And I launched it. And I was like, here, first sale. So that's October 2022.”

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  22. “Think the cool thing with AI, it trains the concept of you, so it's literally like learning just like any AI model learns, it learns how you look. So I did this and then I was getting so I was getting DMs, like telegram messages, like how can I do the same thing? I want these photos. Girlfriend wants these photos, so I was like, okay, this is obviously a business, but I didn't have time to code it, make a whole app about it. So I made an HTML page Register the domain name. And this was not even, it was a stripe payment link, which means you have literally a link to Stripe to pay, but there's no code in the back. So all you know is you have customers that paid money.”

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  23. “Exactly. But this was hit or miss. So you had to do love curation because 99% of it was really bad. These are the photos I uploaded.”

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  24. “Because my eyes are quite far apart, I learned when I did YouTube, I would put a photo of my DJ photo, you know, my mixture. And people would say I'd look like a hammerhead shark. It was like the top comment. So then I realized my eyes are far apart.”

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  25. “So I started making PhotoAI, which was like a pivot of it, where it was like a photo studio where you could take photos without actually needing a photographer, needing a studio. You just type it. And I've been working on it for the last.”

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  26. “Me as a barbie or me as a you know, it was too cheesy. I wanted to go for like what's a real problem we can solve because this is going to be a hype. This is going to be, and it was a hype, these avatars. It's like, let's do real photography. Like, how can you make people look really photorealistic? And it was difficult. And that's why these offers worked because they were all in a cheesy style. And art is easy because you interpret all the problems that AI has with your face are like artistic. If you call it Picasso. But if you make a real photo, all the problems of your face, like you look wrong, you know.”

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  27. “No, it was a little bit sad because all my price would work out and I never had like real fierce competition. And now I have like fierce competition from like a very skilled, high talent like I was developer studio or something that and they already had an app. They had an app and app store for like, I think retouching your face or something. So they were very smart. They add these avatars to there. It's a feature. They had the users, they do a push notification to everybody. We have these avatars Man, I think they made so much money. And I think they did a really great job. And I also made a lot of money with it. But I quickly realized it wasn't my thing because it was so cheesy. It was like kitsch, you know? It's kind of like”

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  28. “And actually it started understanding me as a concept. So my face worked and you could do like different styles like me as a like very cheesy medieval warrior, all this stuff. So it's like this is another startup. So now I did avatarai.me. I couldn't get the dot com. And this was... Yeah, avataryi.me. Well, now it's forwards to photoi because it pivoted. This was more like cheesy thing. So, this is very interesting because this went so viral, it made like, I think like 150K in a week or something Most mine ever made. And then big, this is very interesting, the big VC companies like Lenza, which are much better at iOS and stuff than me. I didn't have iOS app. They quickly built iOS app that does the same and they found technology. And it's all open technology, so it's good. And I think they made like $30 million with it”

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  29. “I would upload a photo of my interior where I lived and I would ask changes into like, I don't know, like maximalist design, you know. And it worked and it worked really well. So I was like, okay, this is a startup because obviously interior design, AI, and nobody's doing that yet. So I launched this and I was successful and made like within a week, made 10K, 20K a month. And now still makes like 40K, 50K a month. And it's been like two years. So then I was like, how can I improve this interior design? I need to start learning fine tuning. And fine-tuning is where you have an existing AI model and you fine-tune it on the specific goal you wanted to do. So I would find really beautiful interior design, make a gallery, and train a new model. that was very good interior design and it worked and i used that as well and then for fun i uploaded photos of myself and here's what happened uh and to train myself like and this would never work obviously and it worked”

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  30. “Really popular for like a while, but then people got so bored of it. I think because I was getting bored of it too, like just. Continuous houseborn, like everything starts looking the same, but then. I thought it was really good at interior. So I pivoted to interiorai.com where I tried to upload first generate interior designs. And then I tried to do, like, there was a new technology called image to image, where you can input an image, like a photo, and it would kind of modify the thing. So you see it looks almost the same as Photo, it's the same code essentially”

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  31. “This was very scrappy in the bottom, there's like a ranking of the most upvoted houses. So these are the top voted. If you go to all time, you see quite beautiful ones. Yeah, so this one is my favorite, the number one is like kind of like a”

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  32. “And I was trying to see what is it good at? Is it good that people know? It's really bad at people. But it was good at houses, so architecture, for example. I would generate like architecture houses. So I made a website called This House Does Not Exist.org and it generated like, they called like House Porn at that one. I was born in a second subreddit, so this was stable diffusion like the first version, so it looks really you can click for another photo. So it generates all these non existing houses.”

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  33. “Think it started because Tableau Fusion came out. So Stable Fusion is like the first generative image model AI model. I started playing with it. Like, you could install on your Mac, somebody forked it and made it work for MacBooks. So I downloaded it and cloned the repo and started using it to generate images. And it was like amazing. I found it on Twitter because you see things happen on Twitter and I would post what I was making on Twitter as well. And you could make any image. You could write a prompt. So essentially write a prompt and then it generates a photo of that or image of that in any style. Like they would use like artist names to make like a Picasso kind of style and stuff.”

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  34. “Of course. I'm not saying codes without a framework. You should use whatever you want, but. Yeah, I think it's suspicious, you know. And I think when I talk about it on the Twitter, like there's a lot there's this army comes out, you know, this is these framework armies.”

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  35. “100%. And it's the same thing with big corporations. 80% of the people don't do anything. It's like, It's not efficient. And if your benchmark is like people building stuff that actually gets done and like for society, right? Like if we want to save time, we should probably use technology as. It's simple, that's pragmatic, that's like that works, that's not overly complicated, doesn't make your life like a living hell, you know?”

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  36. “Or influencer, or whatever, it can't all go to developers. You don't need so many developers for a framework, and it's open source. Make a lot more money on these startups.”

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  37. “Information out there about learning to code because they pay YouTubers, they pay influencers, developer influencers is a big thing to like and same thing what happens with like nutrition and fitness or something. Same thing happens in developing. They pay this influencer to promote this stuff, use it, make stuff with it, make demo products with it. And then a lot of people are like, wow, use this. And I started noticing this because when I was shipped my stuff, people would ask me, what are you using? I would say just PHP, jQuery, why does it matter? And people would start kind of attacking me. Like, why are you not using this new technology, this new framework, this new thing? And I say, I don't know, because this PHP thing works and I don't really optimizing for anything just works. And I never understood why, like I understand there's new technologies that are better and it should be improved. But I'm very suspicious of money, just like lobbying. There's money in this developer framework scene. There's hundreds of millions that goes to ads.”

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  38. “This is my most controversial take, I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like There's frameworks now that raise money, they raise a lot of money, like they raise 50 million, 100 million, trillion dollars. And the idea is that you need to make the developers, the new developers, like when you're 18 or 20 years old, right? Get them to use this framework and then add a platform to it, like where the framework can, it's open source, but you probably should use the platform which is paid to use it. And the cost of the platforms to host it are a thousand times higher than just hosting it on a simple AWS server or a VPS on DigitalOcean, right? So there's obviously like a monetary incentive here. Like we want to get a lot of developers to use this technology and then we need to charge them money because they're going to use it in startups. And then the startups can pay for the bills. But what it kind of destroys the...”

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  39. “With vanilla versions of stuff. Yeah. This like software developers, if you want to get a job. And it's like, you know, people making stuff, like startups. And if you want to be entrepreneur, probably you maybe shouldn't.”

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  40. “Think it's accidental because that's the thing I knew. Like, I knew PHP, I knew HTML CSS, you know, because you make websites. And when my startup started taking off, I didn't have time to, I remember putting on my to-do list, like learn Node.js because it's important to switch, you know, because. This obviously is much better language than PHP. And I never learned it. I never did it because at the end of time, these things were growing like this. And I was launching more projects and I never had time. It's like one day, you know, I'll start coding properly and I never got to it.”

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  41. “Yeah I'm seeing a revival now. People are getting sick of frameworks. Like all the JavaScript frameworks are so, what do you call? It takes so much work to just maintain this code. And then it updates to a new version, you need to change everything. PHP just stays the same and works.”

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  42. “But this is the problem with AI startups because they all act like it's perfect this is groundbreaking and but it's not perfect it's like really bad Half the time”

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  43. “There was a journalist, I think, that got angry that used this and was like, Oh, it made me, it showed like a nipple because Google Vision didn't detect it. So there's like these kind of problems you need to deal with, you know? That's what I'm talking about. This is with Look at the cat face, it's also kind of mangled”

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  44. “Yeah, don't put naked because it's very risky. I have Google Vision that checks every photo before it's shown to the user. Like, check a nipple detector”

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  45. “So, the photorealistic models that are like fine tun They were all trained and born in the beginning, and it was a guy called Hassan. So I was trying to figure out how to do photorealistic AI photos. And it was stable diffusion by itself is not doing that well. Like the faces look all mangled. And it doesn't have enough resolution or something to do that well. But I started seeing these base models, these fine-tuned models, and people were trained on porn. And I would try them, and they would be very photorealistic. They would have bodies that actually made sense, like body anatomy. But if you look at the photorealistic models that people use now, still there's still core porn there, like of naked people. So I need to prompt out the naked and everyone needs to do this with AI startups with imaging.”

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  46. “So I went to Google Images Captain Lex Friedman. I added like 10 or 20 images. You can open them in the gallery and you can use your cursor to, yeah. Some don't look like you, so the hitter miss rate is like, I don't know, say like 50 50 or something, but when I was watching.”

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  47. “On the left, you have the prompt box. Yeah, so you can write so model is your model that's Lex Friedman. So you can write like model.”

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  48. “Yeah, so it's like fire your photographer. The idea is you don't need a photographer anymore. You can train yourself as an AI model and you can take as many photos you want anywhere and any clothes with facial expressions like happy or sad or poses all this stuff.”

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  49. “Yeah, but that's very risky because that's the famous solution trying to find a problem. Usually, it doesn't work, and that's very common with starter founders. I think they have tech, but actually people don't need the tech, right?”

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  50. “Yeah, used to have like a because when I wasn't making money, I was trying to like make this list of ideas to see. So I need to build. I was thinking statistically already, like I need to build all these things and one of these will work out probably, you know. So I need to have a lot of things to try. And I did that. Right now, I think because I already have money, I can do more things based on technology. I found out about when stable diffusion came or chat GPT and stuff, all this thing, all these things were like I didn't start working with them because I had a problem. I had no problems, but I was very curious about technology. And I was playing with it and figuring out first just playing with it and then you find something. Like, okay, this generates stable fusion generates houses very beautiful and interiors, you know?”

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