lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 22:24:48 JST
lainI have noticed that, somewhat contrary to what I would have expected, religious / spiritual people have little problems with LLMs (in fact, they have a lot of 'discussions with chatgpt about faith' podcasts out), while the people who are deadly afraid of it and think it will be the downfall of society are overwhelmingly materialist progressive types. I have some ideas about this but for now it's just an observation.
Whoops! new year happened and I missed the end of the vote!
We have three winners this time with a three-way tie of 6 votes each, @guizzy, @kaiaskutes and @Elliptica, congratulations! Thank you all for participating, let's get some good generations going in 2024!
lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 07:36:05 JST
lain> I expect the only people who are nonplussed by the power of LLMs are those with a soft spot for occultism of some sort—those who think words are magical. Let me explain. > Let me repeat: there is so much abstract structure in our language—the patterns are so overwhelmingly clear, consistent, and objective—that by mindlessly figuring out the probability of one symbol following another, a machine can effectively reason better than the average person for a large number of cases.
Once again we're doing a week-long AI image creation contest! This time the topic is:
STORY ILLUSTRATIONS
Ever read a story and imagined what the scene would look like? Well, now you can show it to all of us! Pick a scene from any story or novel you like and create an image of it. Please tell us which story you are taking inspiration from!
The voting will start one week from now, so get your entries in before that.
Here's an example: A scene from the Yasutaka Tsutsui story "Standing Woman".
I looked into autotagging posts using an MRE, and I actually tried the Mistral LLM, asking it to write automated tags for my posts. I gave it two examples and then fed some random posts to it, and it worked really well. This might be a good way to build a purely server-local algorithmic timeline.
Fediffusion is happy to announce the second image contest, this time with the theme "Invisible Worlds."
Until next week, please use AI to generate an image that explores the mysteries of the unseen, from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. Create a visual masterpiece showcasing an invisible world, be it the intricacies of a cell, the grandeur of the cosmos, or even the mystical and spiritual realms that lie beyond our perception. In a week, we'll post all the images in one place and vote on the winner.