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I have tried to explain "you're not mad at generative AI, you're mad at late stage capitalism" before. Most people aren't really willing to smash the state though (I understand, th…

Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. https://krita-artists.org/t/change-in-policy-for-topics-rela... (I am part of a grou…

Don't discount the value (or difficulty) of a great user interface There are multiple servers that provide the backend "meat" already: gyre.ai (my personal project); Automatic1111 …

Yeah, neither view is a perfect fit. Another example is vision transformer backbones, where a common generic base weight is used to fine-tune all sorts of different processes (segm…

Model weights can't really be described as source code though. The equivalence isn't exact, but I'd describe the weights more as the compiled binary, with the training data & sched…

Since I re-implement the Stability APIs with gyre.ai, it should "just work" for a local inference option. I haven't tested though, and the API spec has lots of under-specified bits…

Since everyone's jumping on the plug wagon, allow me to throw on my project, www.stablecabal.org. We've got a GRPC server that's backwards compatible with the official grpc.stabili…

They aren't making any more land. New Zealand has very lax laws regarding property ownership compared to many countries. No capital gains tax. Very limited ownership restrictions. …

I'm a New Zealander, and strongly pro-immigration. Given how many emigrants there are (including, currently, me), if nothing else we'd run out of people pretty quickly without it. …

If you don't believe Jeff Atwood, I'm not sure why you'd believe me based just on my anecdata, but at a previous job I gave a simple filtering programming task to interviewees (not…