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Post by kovek »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #402
mlsu wrote: post #317

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We are just very sharp when it comes to seeing small differences in images. I'm reminded of when the air force decided to create a pilot seat that worked for everyone. They took the average body dimensions of all their recruits and designed a seat to fit the average. It turned out, the seat fit none of their recruits. [1] I think AI image generation is a lot like this. When you train on all images, you get to this we…

What determines which “average” AI models latch onto? At a pixel level, the average of every image is a grayish rectangle; that's obviously not what we mean and AI does not produce that. At a slightly higher level, the average of every image is the average of every subject every photographed or drawn (human, tree, house, plate of food, ...) in concept space; but AI still doesn't generate a human with branches or a ho…

See the third diagram in https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/18/6049 . There are elements of noise, of input embeddings in the form of images, or in the form of text.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by 0pteron »

ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google has been stomping around like Godzilla this week, and this is the first time I decided to link my card to their AI studio. I had seen people saying that they gave up and went to another platform because it was "impossible to pay". I thought this was strange, but after trying to get a working API key for the past half hour, I see what they mean. Everything is set up, I see a message that says "You're using Paid…

I get this all the time on LibreWolf use Edge/Chrome and make sure not to have any privacy blocking addons.

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Post by jamiek88 »

andrepd wrote: post #637
rl3 wrote: post #544

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"Remove all the trash from the street and sidewalk. Replace the sleeping person on the ground with a green street bench. Change the parking meter into a planted tree." Three sentences that do a great job summing up modern big tech. The new model even manages to [digitally] remove all trash.

Yep, no need for actual urbanism or to worry about the homeless, now governments and realtors can lie to you more conveniently and at an industrial scale! Yay future

And one day we’ll wear glasses that do the same! Then we can solve (ignore) all problems!

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Post by dotancohen »

fooqux wrote: post #578
leopoldj wrote: post #555

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You went further with GCP than I did. I was asked repeatedly by support to contact some kind of a Google sales team. I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I. My friends who work with enterprise cloud have very high opinion about their tech stack.

> I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I. Google isn't good for individuals at all . Unless you've got a few million followers or get lucky on HN, support is literally non-existent. Anyone that builds a business on Google is nuts.

I'd like to state the AWS, in contrast, has been great to me as an individual. The two times that I needed to speak to a human, I had one on the phone resolving my issue. And both issues were due to me making mistakes - on my small personal account.

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Post by poopiokaka »

__alexs wrote: post #639
logankilpatrick wrote: post #419

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First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

When we first started using Gemini for a new product a few months ago you banned our entire GCP account from using at all Gemini in the middle of a demo to our board. Doesn't seem like things have improved all that much on the on boarding front.

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Post by ajonit »

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #45

I've had nano banana pro for a few weeks now, and it's the most impressive AI model I've ever seen The inline verification of images following the prompt is awesome, and you can do some _amazing_ stuff with it. It's probably not as fun anymore though (in the early access program, it doesn't have censoring!)

Nano Banana Pro has blown the rest LLMs out of the park. It's wild to think how powerful these models will be in another 5 years.

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Post by aiisjustanif »

logankilpatrick wrote: post #419
ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google has been stomping around like Godzilla this week, and this is the first time I decided to link my card to their AI studio. I had seen people saying that they gave up and went to another platform because it was "impossible to pay". I thought this was strange, but after trying to get a working API key for the past half hour, I see what they mean. Everything is set up, I see a message that says "You're using Paid…

First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…

Are you using Stripe by chance?

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Post by mlmonkey »

sabatonfan wrote: post #147
mlmonkey wrote: post #132

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You do know that every color copier comes with the ability to identify US currency and would refuse to copy it? And that every color printer leaves a pattern of faint yellow dots on every printout that uniquely identifies the printer?

Is this something strictly with the US currency notes or is the same true for other countries currency as well?

Of course, countries with plastic currency notes (like Australia) don't have to worry about this because their notes incorporate hard-to-counterfeit features like transparent windows.

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Post by Aloisius »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #554
Aloisius wrote: post #365

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The EU didn't define any specific method of watermarking nor does it need to be tamper resistant. Even if they had specified it though, it's easy to remove watermarks like SynthID.

I have been curious about this myself. I tried a few basic stenography detection type tools to look for watermarks but didn’t find anything. Are you aware of any tools that do what you are suggesting?

https://github.com/andrekassis/ai-watermark
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