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Emoji Generator with AI

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Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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It's not a stable diffusion issue, it's a culture issue.

"It's not a stable diffusion issue, it's a culture issue." parroting and perpetuating the biases will ensure it will continue to be a culture issue.

The text to image models represent the data that is being fed to it. If you feed it 100 images and out of those 100 images 95 are of white men politicians and 5 are of politicians of color, that's what you are going to get back. These datasets are gathered automatically from various internet sources and represent the data that is available out in the wild. For stable diffusion to "fix" the bias in the data set would be simply impossible. That would require hiring an army of people whose sole purpose would be to "rebalance" the data set on some internal objective schema manually.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

#123
post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a stable diffusion issue, it's a culture issue.

"It's not a stable diffusion issue, it's a culture issue." parroting and perpetuating the biases will ensure it will continue to be a culture issue.

Id rather train it on real data and fix the root cause than to interject some version of utopia that won the minds of developers.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

#126

Hi! Creator here! I just started hacking on this last night and wasn't expecting to see this on HN already :) It works by taking your prompt and generating an emoji using https://replicate.com/fofr/sdxl-emoji . Next, I remove the background using https://replicate.com/cjwbw/rembg . Then, click to download and add to slack! It's all open-source, code is here: https://github.com/cbh123/emoji Let me know if you have any…

That's such a coincidence. I was browsing Replicate last night for new models and played with the very same one and was impressed at the results (well, mostly). Kudos to you for turning it into something more accessible and the background removal idea. For everyone else, Replicate is well worth playing around with if you want to tinker with some models without much commitment.

Ahah, that's awesome. Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions about Replicate! Happy to help.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

#127
post #53

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Drug dealer, car thief, car jacker, drive-by-shooter, murderer...all of those things and many other crime related terms will give you a black person. Quite a shit thing to be happening.

Yeah I’ve also noticed an unintended bias that we’re not proud of. We’re on it – we’re reviewing the model and fixing the issue ASAP. Thanks for pointing it out and for your patience!

Just take a step back and think about what you've said and the meaning of the word "bias"

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

#128

It produces some "interesting" results. I put in "robber" expecting that one emoji everybody thinks exists but doesnt, and I got a black guy with a white beanie/hat. Apart from that it produces insanely convincing results. I believe people would not bat an eye if they'd get added in an update to iOS!

Heh, I put in "grapefruit" and it gave me just an absolute mess of like 100 grapefruit slices and then added a bunch of smoke over the top when it "removed the background". Then I tried "day gecko" and the output absolutely rocked. So I guess my first try was unlucky.

It loves giving me 100 of someone. I'm wondering if there are sticker pack-like images in it's training set.

And then, yes, the background removal takes away half of these and leaves smoke.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

#130
post #34

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I just saw this was on fly and thought the same thing lol. But I also thought to myself “this is actually a good use for fly, nice simple app to see if there’s traction before moving to something reliable.”

Do you have any specific references or instances that indicate fly.io as being unreliable?

FlyIO deleted my database and I lost all data.

Fly told me in 7-days they would automatically update my redis database. My plan was to manually update it that weekend. 3 days later, I get an alert that they migrated the db early. b/c I didn't have storage enabled, all data was gone.

Support ticket:

https://community.fly.io/t/forced-migration-to-v2-with-decei...

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