AI creative workflows

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Cost control

Lesson 8 of 10 in AI creative workflows.

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The costs that hurt are missing from the price list: the reject rate, the upscales on images nobody chose, the overnight batch with a typo in it, and the second run because nobody saved the first.

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A funnel from four hundred generations down to four delivered images.
In a darkroom, an enlarger makes one large print from a contact sheet of forty small frames. On the sheet one frame is circled in pencil and the rest are left small. The big print develops in a tray below.
Forty small frames, one enlargement. Only the chosen frame earns the expensive step.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “What one delivered asset costs, including everything thrown away.”

    • Workflow
    • Unit cost
    • Ad hoc
    • Sub-graph
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Cheap model to explore, expensive model to finish.”

    • Workflow
    • Ad hoc
    • Ladder
    • Sub-graph
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Keeping an answer so you do not buy it twice.”

    • Cache
    • Inherited workflow
    • Sidecar
    • Folder rot

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