Yeah $50k isn't even that much to Musk, what an idiot.
The company is now actually being run by ChatGPT, Mira is just the face it's hiding behind.
Windows 11 won't even run on most of the computers I have and those computers have still got many years of life in them. If they drop support for Windows 10 I guess I'll go all in on Linux (I just use it for my work machine at the moment).
I feel like it's similar to image compression, you lose a bit every iteration. Consider that the original model was weighted towards common aspects across the training set. Even with some creative prompting for your source images you could unintentionally introduce bias and reduce variations across images generated by your new model. You also get any mistakes or inconsistencies baked in.