SOTA text-to-image 5 years ago was complete garbage. Most people would think the same. Look how good it got now.
You have to look at this as stepping stone research.
You have to look at this as stepping stone research.
The potential target market is significantly different in scale (I assume, I haven't tried to estimate either). The potential competitors are... already in existence. It seems more likely now that we'll succeed at good 3d-generative-AI then it seemed before we got good 2d-generative-AI that we would succeed at that...