Image-to-Video Dominates? Developer Questions the Practical Value of Pure Text-to-Video
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-08-05
Developer cocktailpeanut raised the question: does anyone still use pure text-to-video other than for model evaluation? He argues that at this point in time, he can't think of a single use case where text-to-video makes sense compared to a workflow combining text-to-image for the first frame followed by image-to-video.
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