• 50 Posts
  • 529 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

help-circle








  • I think this confusion is proving the pointlessness of mags like Vogue and models in general. Why do models exist? They certainly weren’t there to impose their overly high unrealistic body standards for women.

    Especially with all of the airbrushing and photoshopping going on. Have you seen videos of digital editors working off of the source material? They fuck around with a LOT of the details, even to the point of changing arm/leg length. It doesn’t seem like much of a leap to go to AI at this point. Even if they didn’t, they would just use AI tools within Photoshop to almost do the same thing.

    Models only exist for advertising. That’s it. I don’t understand why we would treat advertisers as some protected class. This is just the inevitable fate of an already pointless industry.










  • It’s a shame, because ComfyUI can be so much more than just image generation. And just because there’s a lot of string processing for LLMs doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to capture in an I/O interface, especially when it comes to preserving chat history. Save data, load data, ask new questions, etc.

    ChatGPT is pretty damn powerful, I’ll admit. But, all of its components need to be localized, especially since something like a Mixture of Experts model could be split down to base models and loaded/unloaded as necessary.















  • My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.

    We’re already heading there. But, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they’ll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.

    You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.

    Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I’m using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.