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Verily, the era is nigh wherein even lamps and toasters shall brim with surpassing sagacity.
After exposure to this field for many years, the last decade was stunning.
I say “was”, because the speedup in the last 6-18 months has been another thing altogether.
I am not concerned with what we will be able to two years hence, but with how much faster progress will be. And then again, and again.
11 hours remind me of doing raytracing on my Amiga 500 back in the day. It was definitely an overnight job for the "final" render.
So this should be it for trying to regulate stable diffusion type tech, right? If these models and their inference infra can be shrunk down to be runnable on a PS2, it doesn't seem like it's possible to stop this tech without a totalitarian surveillance state (and barely even then!).
So this should be it for trying to regulate theft, right? If you can open a window without any tool other than your own body. It doesn't seem like it's possible to stop thefts without a totalitarian surveillance state (and barely event then!). Or same can be said about media "piracy". Or ransomwares. States have forever regulated things that are not possible to enforce purely technically.
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But theft is quite a different thing, is it not? It's a physical act that someone can be caught engaging in - be it by another person, a guard or a security camera. Sure, the "barrier for entry" to commit it is low, but retailers et al. are doing as much as they can to raise it. Piracy most often isn't treated as a criminal matter, but a civil one - few countries punish piracy severely, but companies are allowed to s…
> few countries punish piracy severely, but companies are allowed to sue the pirate. UNCLOS, Part VII, Section 1, Article 100 https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unc... >> Duty to cooperate in the repression of piracy >> All States shall cooperate to the fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy on the high seas or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State. We could have…
No sane person could ever implement anything like this. This is like saying that we could "just" add the word "digital" to the laws prohibiting murder to make playing GTA illegal.
So this should be it for trying to regulate stable diffusion type tech, right? If these models and their inference infra can be shrunk down to be runnable on a PS2, it doesn't seem like it's possible to stop this tech without a totalitarian surveillance state (and barely even then!).
The war on general computing has been ongoing but not made enough inroads to stop people from owning general computing devices (yet)
So this should be it for trying to regulate stable diffusion type tech, right? If these models and their inference infra can be shrunk down to be runnable on a PS2, it doesn't seem like it's possible to stop this tech without a totalitarian surveillance state (and barely even then!).
The war on general computing has been ongoing but not made enough inroads to stop people from owning general computing devices (yet)
https://frame.work/ and the https://mntre.com/ MNT Reform: Exist
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The war on general computing has been ongoing but not made enough inroads to stop people from owning general computing devices (yet)
Indeed, the death knell could be tolling not for regulation of ai but for general purposes computers. In AI we have four horsemen: copyright infringement, illegal pornography, fake news generation, and democratization of capabilities that large companies would rather monetize.
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Are those 2048 x 2048 images still sensible? SD 1.5 is best used at 512x512 and may produce sensible images upto 768. It generates monstrosities above that. Similarly SD XL is good upto 1024.
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The war on general computing has been ongoing but not made enough inroads to stop people from owning general computing devices (yet)
That is virtually impossible because Turing-complete systems are everywhere