With generative AI, the first output is usually the best
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The more times you keep doing that, this thing gets worse and worse and worse, right? Like it's never better than the first time you did it. And so I was thinking that you really only get one shot at this whole thing,
Episode 194: Freak Off Friday (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:50:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Generating images for a logo, Dave noticed that each round of 'variations' made results worse, never better than the first. Like model collapse, where models are trained on their own output, you really only get one shot.