[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 218 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Grok 2 uses the image model, "Flux." Flux is made by black forest labs. You two can download the model and run it locally on a moderately expensive gaming PC or use it for free at https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev among other places.

I find it funny that the most newsworthy component of this product is made and distributed for free by a completely unrelated company. This is manufactured outrage by musk as a ploy to seem relivant in the ai space. All he did was put a free thing behind a Paywall.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 days ago

If they had half a brain, Waymo could geofence and time gate the honking so it won't occur in those lots.

I would love to ask the ai that generated the image why that panda in the center is sweating.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago

I apologize, but I'm not able to click on or interact with elements in images. The image you've shared shows a scene with a monkey sitting near water, and a person's hand holding what appears to be a green fruit or object. The text at the top of the image says "HOW TO TRICK A MONKEY". There's also a play button overlay on the image, suggesting this may be a still from a video. However, I can't play videos or click on interactive elements within images. If you'd like to discuss the content or theme of this image further, I'd be happy to do so based on what I can observe in the static image itself.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 month ago

I use virtual credit cards from privacy.com. for trials I set a $1 limit and forget about it. It's pretty useful for legitimate subscriptions too, since I can pause or end them just by pausing the card.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 2 months ago

It's worth mentioning that in this instance the guy did send porn to a minor. This isn't exactly a cut and dry, "guy used stable diffusion wrong" case. He was distributing it and grooming a kid.

The major concern to me, is that there isn't really any guidance from the FBI on what you can and can't do, which may lead to some big issues.

For example, websites like novelai make a business out of providing pornographic, anime-style image generation. The models they use deliberately tuned to provide abstract, "artistic" styles, but they can generate semi realistic images.

Now, let's say a criminal group uses novelai to produce CSAM of real people via the inpainting tools. Let's say the FBI cast a wide net and begins surveillance of novelai's userbase.

Is every person who goes on there and types, "Loli" or "Anya from spy x family, realistic, NSFW" (that's an underaged character) going to get a letter in the mail from the FBI? I feel like it's within the realm of possibility. What about "teen girls gone wild, NSFW?" Or "young man, no facial body hair, naked, NSFW?"

This is NOT a good scenario, imo. The systems used to produce harmful images being the same systems used to produce benign or borderline images. It's a dangerous mix, and throws the whole enterprise into question.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 3 months ago

This is based on a cool, but ultimately incorrect historical theory called "phantom time." The general premise being that European history (and world history) was mostly fabricated as propaganda by royalty. It wouldn't be so crazy except, a) archeology exist and validates certain medieval records and b) non European Nations exist, and record their own interactions with Western Nations.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I disagree with this premise. I think games like age of empires and StarCraft had mass appeal and success. They brought in audiences who don't normally like games, and broadly were well received by young, old, and different genders. Especially age of empires 2.

Modern RTS games are just (mostly) sloppy, unfinished, cashgrabs with no vision. They suffer the most from the transition to 3d as well. If a major studio actually put work and time into a polished, 2d, isometric, RTS that wasn't solely focused on being an esport, I think there is a major vacuum for them to fill.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 187 points 4 months ago

The attrition is slow, but every user lost to Linux is likely lost forever. After a year or so of totally free software, who is going to build a new windows compatible PC, buy a Windows 11 license, and pay for subscription service just to do word processing, or play a few incompatible games?

Windows completely overestimates people's willingness to throw out their laptop or PC just to get a new OS paintjob. For every person who does it, another one will leave their ecosystem forever.

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 4 months ago

This feels... Scammy? Not to be accusatory, but gpt 4 is expensive to run. It is impossible for people to use it for free.

What llm is actually providing the response here? Either someone is footing the bill for an API and acting as a proxy, a situation which raises many red flags, or the model you're talking to is something far cheaper to run, like a mistral model.

Even the second case is sketchy. 😅

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