Is the future of 3D modeling Generative AI? Meshy.AI review

It seems that everyone's talking about Generative AI. Is it possible that this technology could allow the everyone to 3D print whatever they want? Today I explore a AI Generative 3D modeling tool, Meshy.AI to figure out if this is a step into the future, or a step into... something else.

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00:00 Is AI modeling the future?
01:37 Meshy.AI
01:59 Trying to make a simple cube
02:43 Calibration Cube
03:54 Heroo Trophy from Image
07:09 Slicer Trick for Flat Bottoms
07:36 How do you think Machavolli feels?
08:03 Racin gthe AI to make a functional part
13:35 Custom Funko Pop figure
17:27 Custom Gaming minis
20:17 Conclusion

[MakerBees]

PRO AI tip: Commas, use them, make ideas byte sized, and arrange the order Most important first. The more articulate and long the prompts the wider net of junk you cast for AI to sift through.

[MakerBees]

15:23 the dangly is his bandanna, it is a recognizable part of modern solid snake especially in the Mario Brawl version, it is constantly blowing in the wind. The first one was at first glance recognizable and well done.

[zivzulander]

Literally just subbed a few minutes ago after seeing your very good TPU video from a year ago. Great timing for me and I'm going to test Meshy out to see how it does at making a model for chocolate moulds as well as a Funko Pop-style figurine for a picture book character I created (an anthropomorphic coffee cup).

Looking at the results in your video, it definitely seems to have a high variability between attempts, which isn't atypical for a lot of generative AI, so it probably will take a few tries or more to get usable results. The PVC connector results were... interesting 😅

I do need some of those for a DIY enclosure on a new printer I just got in, but I think I'll buy the connectors or may design them myself like you did. Although I might try playing around with prompting anyway to see Meshy could do it (getting another AI to write the prompt based on a sketch may work - will be fun to test this, regardless).

Excellent video! Thank you. Also, Solid Snake asked me to give you a random box for your effort. 📦

[WoLpH]

The thing with generative AI is that unless you add a lot of rules and manual improvements (at least initially), you end up with a lot of these types of near-misses. A hand with 6 fingers is very close to a hand with 5 fingers, but it's still wrong. A head with a face on the back is still a head with a face, but it's wrong. And that's the issue here, it's just generating things that are close to what you would expect but it doesn't actually understand what it's doing which gives these wacky results. It will certainly get better over time, but there's a really fine line between a good AI and one that's constantly halucinating.

[D_Printing]

7:17 Slicers are adding more and more design options

[OldCurmudgeonDP]

ST Replicators probably need the output of a modern power plant to even try to function.

[DJapan]

Different 3D programs use different units for scale. You might save something correctly from one but then load it into anointed and it's 1000x bigger.

[americanindeon]

Should you try to us a Chat GPT first to get a better prompt? I'm just thinking... Also another trick for you guys is to upload a picture of what you're looking to make, have the Ai describe what it "sees" and that will give you a better prompt to work with.

[_Garm_]

or Replicators from *stargate SG1, you would get more self printing printers ? :D

[lonewolfsstuck]

IK this is a review of the meshai but i would suggest Rodin AI 3d generator.. i have had much better success. Basically it generates an image from your prompt and then generates a model from that image, or you can just skip the prompt and supply an image yourself.

[thegrafxguy]

oh my. the only wireframe i saw them show on their site is atrocious as far as topology goes. which is good for artists, cause that mesh would not be able to be rigged or animated at all without a complete re-topo.

[OldCurmudgeonDP]

3:30 reminds me of the alien language from Hangar 18 (circa 1980s)

[D_Printing]

I think it can take some time for A.I. to "Learn" things

[GSXNetwork]

Currently 3D generative models cannot follow precision instruction, maybe with the latest release of llama-based model there will be improvement soon.

[garrettshorr]

Even if it gets better, they aren't transparent about where they get their training data from. It is almost certain they do not own the rights to the images and 3d models they use to create their gen AI model. The overwhelming majority of Generative AI services are based on wholesale theft of the work used to train it, while also attempting to compete with the artists from whom they stole said work. Try asking meshy to generate mickey mouse and it will. Highly doubt they've paid Disney. Highly doubt they've paid any other artists whose works went into training it.

[Tater]

"you should know where the face goes"

no, they absolutely should not

[UrbanDragon]

So they trained their AI on only opt-in works from artists that agreed to it right? Or is it yet another bunch of thieves selling people who actually worked to learn something down the river.

[m.vinall]

Generative modelling, is the same as it’s always been. They just use ai for marketing purposes

[stewartpalmer]

You are right. The tech is becoming impressive. It can generate quickly something you can then edit yourself and make it yours.

[kimmotoivanen]

_"AI whisperer"_ - I'm putting more effort in TinkerCad and Blender skills 😉

Youtube is filling with AI generated short videos, usually with super women with quite unrealistic proportions and little clothes and faces that are not quite unlike women we see in movies, which suggests that either AI is taught in "interesting" ways, or creators are horny teenage boys or horny bigger boys with similar mindset.
Do we start to get AI generated (hopefully less smut, but just wait) copyright-ignoring 3D models all over our favourite 3D model sites? Are they used to get likes and downloads and free stuff (MakerWorld, looking at you 🙄) for little effort instead of filling a need? Will un-curated un-printable nice looking 3D models flood the sites, pushing 3D printing beginners (3D printer as appliance, you know, anyone can use them) to despair and to throw their printer amongst other "it'll be cool, they said" trinkets?

I'm a little afraid we tend to use AI for wrong reasons and for wrong objectives. Monkeys have fun with bucket over their head or leaf covering their eyes, wandering around blind. I sort of lost the idea connecting the two was, but there's something very wrong about us 😅