AI Companionship is a Thing, 10 Business Ideas using GenAI, and a RAG Overview
A link dump this morning via Twitter.
Morning y’all!
I think today’s going to be a great day. I’m sitting in the dark typing a few words and thoughts as they come to mind and as the sun starts to make it’s entrance into the world I consider how much that I have and I feel grateful.
I’m thankful for time to do interesting and meaningful things and friends and family that care about me. Don’t lose sight of the important stuff friends!
Today is a smattering of random things I’ve bookmarked via Twitter and I thought I’d dump them on you; I’m certain one or two things will be fascinating.
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— Summer
I had shared previously this report via a16z but someone pointed out that some of the more used apps are for companionship — here are the top 8:
Character
Janitor
CrushOn
Yodayo
Candy
SpicyChat
Chub
DreamGF
I don’t consider companionship an “epidemic” nor do I think it’s a bad thing.
A designer at Google doesn’t think that their strategy is a very good one. I definitely see the panic and forced-fitted attempts to make all of this work and it’s also no surprise that the small startups are eating everyone’s lunch.
MusicGen Web is an AI-powered music generation tool right in your browser. It runs locally and no calls to any APIs.
This guy shares his workflow to turn any video into any style. Get the deets here.
Another way to run Arc2Face locally using Gradio. Just give it a face and get variations back. Run it on your on box with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
I love StableDiffusion but I’ve been checking out a few other similar tools and ComfyUI is one of the more popular ones. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get it started and up and running.
Here are 10 business ideas that you could consider starting using AI. The list includes:
AI design startup
Selling digital products
Content creation for social media
Faceless YouTube channels
Chatbot sales
Affiliate marketing
Blog writing
Print on-demand designs
Educational courses
Copywriting
Maybe we can all start making money without much effort. If that’s even possible.
Here you can run PhotoMaker locally using Gradio. Add image, a prompt, bingo.
A high-level overview of what RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is all about. Learn each component via this Twitter thread.
Canva released a number of updates a while back but I haven’t had time to try them all quite yet. Apparently, it’s really become even more useful with AI. 12 features that’ll really up your creativity and output.
Consistent character generation has been hard and a number of startups have been tackling this tricky problem with automated tools while others are doing it more manually. I really appreciate this walkthrough on how one person created multi-character workflows on their own.
AI influencers are a thing and some are really popular and profitable. Emm shares a few thoughts on how they do this here and Pietro shares their workflow too.
10 of the best image upscalers out there. Thanks Farhan.
That’s it! Hopefully you find something useful in this link and resource dump!
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— Summer