fruitywelsh @fruitywelsh@qoto.org

Just a reminder, as I get this a lot, but joining the United Federation of Instances doesnt require **any** time contribution of the part of its admins or instances. Any voting is totally optional to participate. As long as your instance follows our code of ethics you can join, nothing else required other than to federate to other UFoI instance.

DM me if you want to talk more, are are at over 200,000 members and will be open to more over the next week or so before membership will become harder and more formalized.

all intances welcome, from single user to large instances.

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi

@Emmacox What they are is denoisers. Trained on taking images, adding in static, and seeing how well they can clean them up, undo the damage. Until they get so good that you can feed them pure static and they'll clean it up until they've basically "imagined in" an image.

You can do this yourself. Look at some static, imagine you're seeing shapes in it, and bit by bit move/tweak the static until you've formed an image.

The textual guidance guides the static-cleanup process.

@Emmacox People have this weird notion that AI art is copying pieces of existing artwork. It doesn't work that way. The entire checkpoint of StableDiffusion is 4 gigs. It was trained on 6 billion images. So unless you think one can fit an entire image in less than 1 byte, obviously, it is not storing images.

An easy test is to look up an image label (say on LAION) and type that exact label. Odds are it won't even resemble that image.

everything changes: hands feet eyes the face of storm, all composition of the Literary Olympics, to restore literature, specifically poetry, as a fine artist in a variety of media.

🎥 Forging a Christmas gnome - Torbjörn Åhman
#Blacksmithing #Christmas ☃️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMYMt9dba0

Been obsessed with carnival rides recently for some reason... #Carnival #AIArt

PFC bans are going to change the face of all waterproof garments

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pfc-bans-are-going-to-change-the-face-of-all-waterproof-garments/

#steampunk mona lisa is silently judging you ~ #ai #aiart #mastoart #digitalart #midjourney

New Pirate Site Blocking Law Allows Intermediaries To File Complaints

https://torrentfreak.com/new-pirate-site-blocking-law-allows-intermediaries-to-file-complaints-221204/

#intermediaries #SiteBlocking #siteblocking #Anti-Piracy #uruguay #piracy #isps #DNS

#Pyschedelic #Bear #AIArt

Stream starting now! Boosts are appreciated. :)

General gaming

#Linux #Games #VideoGames #Gaming #LinuxGaming #Owncast

https://stream.pavot.ca

NO BUT WAIT. EVERYTHING IS ON POINT. THE HUMOR. THE ROMANCE. I'M INVESTED NOW. #ChatGPT #GPT3 #AIart

@fruitywelsh I always think about that old (possibly apocryphal)Thomas Edison quote:

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” 😀

E-ink art frames are a scam (2021)

https://kurotimedesign.blogspot.com/2021/04/e-ink-art-frames-are-scam.html

#Pyschedelic #Bear #AIArt

#linux #debian #archlinux virt-manager installed, MX fluxbox installed for my development system, git bare repository updated for apt and nordvpn aliases, and getting repo installed on virtual machine.

An interesting social question about 2023 is whether language models will create the same kind of bitter polarized climate that now surrounds #aiart. I suspect they will, although IP may not be the flashpoint in the same way because captions aren't central for #LLM. (So author names aren't as central.) But still when jobs are disrupted, people get angry.

SpaceX Starshield – Supporting National Security

https://www.spacex.com/starshield/

#introduction

Hi there!

I’m lucky enough to do #product type things - #productmanagement, #productowner, #agile etc - for a living.

I find it to be really interesting, rewarding work.

And only just sometimes like being locked in a cage-match against imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Some of my hobbies, passions, & distractions:
#stoicism, #opensource, #linux, #Ubuntu, #data, #retrocomputing, #Lego, #actionfigures, #videogames