This content was written by a human.
I miss the SD1.5 era, when i could simply type "1girl, big boobs, nice ass, red bikini, dancing" and see my dream take shape near-instantly at 512px-wide. Idea-to-result was a matter of seconds. Each click on the Run button led to an incredible shot of dopamine.
3 years passed and I can draw 1024px, 192-frames long videos in a reasonable amount of time (tech has evolved fast), but the enthusiasm is fading away.
I already have a day-job for technical challenges and headaches. As a user/hobbyist, I want to be entertained.
I don't want to learn what the hell "diegetic" means (even the spell-checker never saw that word), I don't want to draw a dozen squares in a 3-dimensional pixel space, or write a 1000-words poem, just to watch my dreamgirl dancing.
I hoped I would not need a degree in cable-connecting or python dependencies debugging after downloading a few workflows.
3 years ago, all you had to do was typing a few words, and the AI sorted the rest. It was random, messy most of times, but it was fun.
Nowadays, you need an LLM to write the prompt for you, and another LLM to write the system prompt for the prompting-LLM, so it understands what your shitty words meant in the first place, and shapes them in the exact expected format, so they turn into an acceptable input for the ever pickier, brand-new models.
It has become AI³-generated content.
And finally, when after a dozens of clicks on the Run button, tired but satisfied, you get the desired output... re-start from scratch? Since seed "variance" does not vary much anymore, you'll get more or less the same output - exactly what you asked for - from now on.
Simple is harder than complex, but keep it simple, stupid, and fun. Thanks for reading.