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Santos: Dream Stories trains consistent models using synthetic photo variations
“We were able to reduce the number of pictures required to literally just one, because then we're like, holy , you know, we can essentially just ask for one picture, generate the synthetic version of it, and then say, do you like this? Great. So we generate a f…”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 54:13 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
Disclosure
Santos: Dream Stories will not make ABC books due to zero repeatability
“That's why we're not doing ABC books. You know, people ask me to say, well, can I get a book about ABC? I was like, no, not interested in that, right? There's no repeatability to that.”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 32:54 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
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Dream Stories has generated about 70,000 user characters since launch
“But we've had since we launched, we had about 70,000 characters created on the platform.”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 0:54 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
Disclosure
Santos: Dream Stories used ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and LoRAs for consistency
“We use a number of things. We, at the time we used the chat to PT. We used the stable diffusion. I forget the first model we used. We used to do it. We used LORAS, which was we still do in some regards but LORAS is something that, you know, that you literally …”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 10:22 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
Insight
Santos: Building consumer AI requires consistency without multiple tries
“It's an entirely different thing to build a product for other people to use it, like, you know, the, you know, with sort of some sort of symbols of quality and consistency, right? So again, you actually mentioned this, right? You go in, you do it, and eventual…”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 9:34 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
Disclosure
Vice Santos: Dream Stories sells multiple books per customer via episodic sequences
“I told you that we sell multiple books, you know, to the same person you know, essentially because they're episodic, right? It's a sequence.”
Ricardo Vice Santos Dec 29, 2025 ▶ 21:11 #2290 He’s building an AI media empire
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