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Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by zB2sj38WHAjYnvm »

nl wrote: post #166
flashman wrote: post #97

Twenty years ago, I don't think any of us were excited about a future internet where we couldn't trust whether what we were seeing or reading was genuine. I hope one day we'll be able to look back on this era as an aberration, like that scene in Mad Men where the Drapers fling their picnic rubbish onto the grass and drive away.

I LOVE being able to create images of things I could previously only imagine. I think the inability to see the freedom AI gives people is one of the saddest things I've seen. I remember when the internet was young people would complain about how it was becoming read-only. Now we have a tool to let people express themselves and people complain the fact there are fake pics on AirBNB means the collapse of society. Pleas…

>I LOVE being able to create images of things I could previously only imagine. Did you only just get access to a pencil?

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by naasking »

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm wrote: post #181
nl wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I LOVE being able to create images of things I could previously only imagine. I think the inability to see the freedom AI gives people is one of the saddest things I've seen. I remember when the internet was young people would complain about how it was becoming read-only. Now we have a tool to let people express themselves and people complain the fact there are fake pics on AirBNB means the collapse of society. Pleas…

>I LOVE being able to create images of things I could previously only imagine. Did you only just get access to a pencil?

This empowers people who have great imagination but lack skill and the time to develop it. I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by naasking »

sedawkgrep wrote: post #170
nl wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I LOVE being able to create images of things I could previously only imagine. I think the inability to see the freedom AI gives people is one of the saddest things I've seen. I remember when the internet was young people would complain about how it was becoming read-only. Now we have a tool to let people express themselves and people complain the fact there are fake pics on AirBNB means the collapse of society. Pleas…

You should reconsider the scope. Nobody is losing sleep over Airbnb pics. We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible.

> We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible.

This was always the case. Spin and propaganda are not new, the way it's conveyed has just become a bit easier. People are not as susceptible to misinformation as most assume, they recalibrate how much stock they put into the things they see based on the quality of the information environment. Basically everyone knows now that the internet has a low signal to noise ratio.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by naasking »

plomme wrote: post #162
pjc50 wrote: post #156

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The death of consensus reality is also the death of democratic politics. Too many people regard that as a positive.

Sure, but LLMS and image generators are not the death of "consensus reality". Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.

> Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.

Boy do I wish that were the case. Investigative journalism is rare now and instead favours activist journalism, public debate is hard (but getting better), and institutional trust is at all time lows, for various reasons.

People will muddle through regardless, we're not as fragile as most assume.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by sedawkgrep »

naasking wrote: post #183
sedawkgrep wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should reconsider the scope. Nobody is losing sleep over Airbnb pics. We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible.

> We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible. This was always the case. Spin and propaganda are not new, the way it's conveyed has just become a bit easier. People are not as susceptible to misinformation as most assume, they recalibrate how much stock they put into the things they see based on the quality o…

No, this really hasn't always been the case. At least not in the sense it is today.

20 years ago your misinformation came from television, radio, and print. All of those things were expensive to produce and there was an implicit need for them to be at least vaguely believable and reliable, because their existence depended on it to continually generate revenue.

- Today, a single person produce 100% AI-generated media for basically the cost of their time.

- That media is as high quality as anything else out there.

- Social media platforms provide the delivery system for free.

- There's no real way to tell if there's even a real person behind the name/pseudonym used for posting it. It might be a person, it might be an algorithm, it might be a nation-state. You have no way to know.

Coincidentally, this is at the top of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355751

It's more about using LLMs to impersonate someone, but the point stands.

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Post by ekianjo »

itake wrote: post #174
ekianjo wrote: post #161

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> positive healthcare outcomes Its seems to be hidden from view. Global health is getting worse, not better

Can you cite a source? Covid pushed back the longevity gains, but there hasn't be a decline or flatten since the internet grew in popularity (2000 - 2019). https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/mortality-and-globa...

https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(22)0009...

Obesity continues to increase everywhere, and is a leading indicator for poor health outcomes over time.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by naasking »

sedawkgrep wrote: post #185
naasking wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We’re in an era now where every image and video (and for that matter audio) is potentially fake; where knowing what’s real and true is no longer possible. This was always the case. Spin and propaganda are not new, the way it's conveyed has just become a bit easier. People are not as susceptible to misinformation as most assume, they recalibrate how much stock they put into the things they see based on the quality o…

No, this really hasn't always been the case. At least not in the sense it is today. 20 years ago your misinformation came from television, radio, and print. All of those things were expensive to produce and there was an implicit need for them to be at least vaguely believable and reliable, because their existence depended on it to continually generate revenue. - Today, a single person produce 100% AI-generated media…

Sorry, but none of the factors you mention are particularly important IMO. At worst they cause a temporary blip that adversely affects some people before they recalibrate their expectations of the information environment they're in. People are simply not as vulnerable to this stuff as the chicken littles crying about misinformation think they are. All of the failure modes of media that you name have happened before, and people adapted.

Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221150412

> It's more about using LLMs to impersonate someone, but the point stands.

I personally knew someone that fell for the Nigerian prince scam 20 years ago. Same old tricks, just recycled in a new medium.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by sroussey »

hankbond wrote: post #105
sroussey wrote: post #99

I extracted the code from the web demo to add to make a web image generation node to my in browser ai workflow tool, and it’s pretty sweet. Waiting for xenova to add to transformersjs 4.3 and I’ll release as well. Couldn’t wait though to test.

can you describe your "in browser ai workflow tool"? I may or may not be working on something similar and am very interested in what others are building in the space.

https://Workglow.dev

My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out.

Re: 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

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Post by jermaustin1 »

hmokiguess wrote: post #180

Got it to run on iPhone but was surprised to see they have some form of censorship and moderation on the input side on their client app. I thought a big part of local/offline AI was sovereignty, unfiltered, and censorship/bias resistance.

It looks like the text encoder is a separate bonsai model, so it can probably be obliterated or whatever it is called.
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