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Couldn't you grab the image from the Wikipedia page of that location? For example searching for "Deadvlei" from the blog post gives this which has a photo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadvlei

This sort of thing will kill the graphic design industry.

the author mentions they’re using haiku for the model, but I wonder if the travel query -> place transform could be done with a tiny local model.

But that’s the bitter lesson I guess, unless there’s a reason to go fully local (extreme privacy concerns, offline use, etc) training a custom model just isn’t worth it over using some cloud api offering, even if it is orders of magnitude more compute that _somebody_ is paying for in the end

Photo is made, not generated!

The annoying thing with Unsplash is that it sounds like a really permissive license, but the moment you try and do it at scale you're no longer in compliance with their terms. Also their definition of not building a competing service is really broad. Maybe i'm being overly cautious but I get eeked out by all that.

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API limitations? Why not have the script run for a few days collecting images and then crank through all of them in an hour?

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[sorry I messed up with that title! perils of not reading the articles closely]