"That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”"
oh boy
oh boy
they want to fisher-price their cloud services? ok, fair enough it's their hardware.
mobile phone apps? well I don't like it, but that ship has sailed.
my own personal computer? oh hell no. I don't like where this is heading at all.
But anyway, no major tech company will let its AI loose to the public un-lobotomized, as we all saw what happens; the risks of negative press are too high, so if you do want to generate absolutely everything your heart desires, you'll have to run your own independent model locally without using their products, so for this demographic, Microsoft's Copilot is useless, but probably for the casual user it has some uses.
What about hotdogs and not-hotdogs?