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Then instead of just presenting me with a blank image tell me why it's blank. Or add the word "nude" to the default negative filter which by default doesn't have that in it. The default is: negative-prompt:"Ugly, duplication, duplicates, mutilation, deformed, mutilated, mutation, twisted body, disfigured, bad anatomy, out of frame, extra fingers, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, extra limbs, malformed limbs, missin…

Sure, if this was a commercial product i would also scream about feedback. But as this is a free side project im not going to criticize decisions on what they think they need to do to avoid unnecesary drama. I credit them for making the bypass relatively simple.

Nobody is screaming

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

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It's a little premature, fine, but I want to start liquidating my rhetorical swaps here: I've been saying since last summer (sometimes on HN, sometimes elsewhere) that "prompt engineering" is BS and that in a world where AI gets better and better, expecting to develop lasting competency in an area of AI-adjacent performance (a.k.a. telling an AI what to do in exactly the right way to get the right result) is akin to…

Large language models are stateless. The apps and fine-tuned models are doing prompt engineering on users' behalf. It's very much a thing for developers, with the goal of making it invisible for end users.

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#154
post #109

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Dark patterns are frowned upon here on HN. Letting the user upload dozens of images and only after that telling them they need an account. Not good.

its not a dark pattern, what would happen to the images after uploading?

> its not a dark pattern

You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong many of us think it is :)

> what would happen to the images after uploading?

I have no idea, as there is no such information given going as far as the upload form, nor in the FAQ. This is information you should provide.

Though that isn't the key problem IMO. For someone who backs out because of the sign-up requirement, you've wasted their time (and the service now has their images with no obvious pre-agreed policy covering re-use or other licensing issues).

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#155

I am not a fan of software such as this putting in an arbitrarily "safety" feature which can only be disabled via undocumented environment variable. At least make it a flag documented for people who don't have an issue with nudity. There isn't even an indication that there is a "safety" issue, you just get a blank image and are wondering if your GPU/model or install is corrupted. This isn't running on a website that…

Nudity isnt really the core issue. It is about illegal content. Nudity is the over-protective, over-inclusive bandaid solution to prevent this thing from being used to generate the very illegal material that will trigger authorities.

Is any AI generated image even illegal, assuming originality and difference from training set?

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#156

I am not a fan of software such as this putting in an arbitrarily "safety" feature which can only be disabled via undocumented environment variable. At least make it a flag documented for people who don't have an issue with nudity. There isn't even an indication that there is a "safety" issue, you just get a blank image and are wondering if your GPU/model or install is corrupted. This isn't running on a website that…

Nudity isnt really the core issue. It is about illegal content. Nudity is the over-protective, over-inclusive bandaid solution to prevent this thing from being used to generate the very illegal material that will trigger authorities.

Genuinely curious what type of content would be considered illegal here.

- the tool is drawing original content. - the tool is executing on my laptop. - the output image is not shared with anyone.

In a way, whatever this tool can do, MS Paint could (theoretically) do.

Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

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post #122

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How do I get it to use CPU rather than GPU, please? I have 128GB of RAM but a lowly 2GB of VRAM in my PC.

Try setting the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment variable to ''.

That worked! Thanks.

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

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Nudity isnt really the core issue. It is about illegal content. Nudity is the over-protective, over-inclusive bandaid solution to prevent this thing from being used to generate the very illegal material that will trigger authorities.

Genuinely curious what type of content would be considered illegal here. - the tool is drawing original content. - the tool is executing on my laptop. - the output image is not shared with anyone. In a way, whatever this tool can do, MS Paint could (theoretically) do. Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?

Nope. It is illegal if you do it on ms paint too. Images of naked kids (real or fiction) + transmitted over internet (ie state lines) = bad bad day for all involved.

Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

#159

I am not a fan of software such as this putting in an arbitrarily "safety" feature which can only be disabled via undocumented environment variable. At least make it a flag documented for people who don't have an issue with nudity. There isn't even an indication that there is a "safety" issue, you just get a blank image and are wondering if your GPU/model or install is corrupted. This isn't running on a website that…

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Re: Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

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post #146

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The hands issue is going to be an awesome story for all of us in 10-20 years. The younger generation just won’t fathom how hard it was to get proper hands. I wonder what a parallel comparable now would be? Something the slightly technical general public just can’t wrap their head around why it was complicated “back then”. Maybe todays example is a smart voice assistant like Alexa.

Or maybe it will never be fixed, and in the future when they are trying to determine if someone is a human or an artificial replica, they will simply ask them to draw a set of human hands as a test.

Someone needs to redo the blade runner scene with SD with the hands question :)
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