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My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

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Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

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post #10

> (Sent through Gemini to blur my monitor). Excuse me, what ?

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#13
post #10

> (Sent through Gemini to blur my monitor). Excuse me, what ?

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

Yeah essentially this. The irony of about wanting to obscure information by submitting it to a model API isn't lost on me, but it was the easiest way I could think of. Wanted some way of making the most key content in my picture to be the only thing unblurred

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

The same reason today's inexperienced programmers depend totally on NextTailVibeJSFlare. It's all they know.

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#15

Clicked for Tamagotchi, but I saw none. My day is ruined. :'c

It caught my eye also but the article was interesting so I'll forgive OP :-)

On the topic of tamagotchi, if you happen to have a flipper zero there is emulator for it :-) my kid enjoyed it for while and it saved me a few bucks from having to buy one.

https://github.com/GMMan/flipperzero-tamagotch-p1

You can run it on tama-p1 on other platforms also but the flipper was very reminiscent of the original one.

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

Why not? You send the picture and ask to blur the monitor in plain text. It gives you back the picture with a blurred monitor.

That seems like a very easy way to do the job. What's the issue specifically?

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

The same reason today's inexperienced programmers depend totally on NextTailVibeJSFlare. It's all they know.

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Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

Because bluing yourself is messy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GYtgFdXCGE

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

#19

  Sent through Gemini to blur my monitor
Blurring is never the solution as it can be unblurred in most cases (look up Mr whirlwind). Also Gemini sounds like overkill for the task of burring in general. Inkscape and gimp can do it for free (providing that you have a computer, not an iPad for example)

Re: My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The image is watermarked from gemini, so presumably the author was trying to allay concerns that the important content was fake.

That doesn't answer the question of why you would use an LLM to blue your monitor when there are a thousand ways to do it yourself

Honestly, if these image models still use diffusion with random seeds at their core, it might be actually more secure than blurring it yourself.
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