Social media is a huge part of the problem…

Stop using social media and 90% of the internets issues stop affecting you.

Search is still fucked tho

I’m with you.

Local everything I possibly can.

ESH

The one beside Debian is almalinux I think.

The one beside Kali is parrot

Yeah. You got it.

And sure you can hop on vocitai and download a model or lora or lycoris or comfyui workflow or whatwver. But we’re only at the beginning stages of ai.

Like. Face swapping is mainly done with with the inswapper. Onnx model which was pulled by insight face after it started making the rounds in the face swapping applicarion roop. It’s all well and good for hobbyist face swapping image gen but it’s a 128 bit model and low res. It kind of makes a blurry mess on larger images. Insight face has higher resolution models available but they’re not public, and to my knowledge there aren’t any viable alternative to this model that can match the same speed and accuracy. So everyone is out here playing with sticks and rocks while those who can pay have shoyn new things.

There are very valid concerns about the harmful potential of deep fakes and I can understand how the models creator didn’t want to take responsibility for enabling that. But if, say, google wanted to use that or a similar closed source in house model to deep fake CASM for propaganda purposes or the same for political leaders, celebrities, not only does the public not have access to those models to understand how it’s being done and identify artifacts of that process, they lack the ability to “fight back” in any meaningful way.

To be clear I don’t think the above is, or is inevitably going to happen, but it highlights the asymmetric nature of ai that big tech wants. It doesn’t even have to be such high stakes. If you wanted to, say, swap out your son’s face for Luke Skywalker on the star wars movie for a Christmas present or something, that’s something that would be challenging to do locally and convincingly without the right model, but not having access to that model you could instead be forced to pay an absurdly high price by a private company or denied entirely due to fear of copyright infringement, even though I’m relatively certain doing that and not releasing it publicly falls purely in the realm of fair use.

And then there’s text, speech, audio generation. What happens if the tech gets good enough for someone to spend a few hours setting up some parameters for some pop songs with vocals, hits go, and generates music as consistently appealing as what we hear on the radio? And when no one else can access that tech? They’re able to pay artists nothing and basically produce free content wed have to pay for. If the public had access to that same tech then artists would still have a role in making popular music, even if the landscape had shifted totally. Either way the music business as we know it dies, but there’s one option where creative people can still make money independently without getting on big techs dick to do so.

It’s a complicated issue and the ethics of it are fraught no matter where you look, but take one look at how cynically terrible all of googles products are getting and I think it’s painfully obvious we can’t trust them and their ilk with some access to this kind of tech.

Say it with me folks: regulatory capture.

Google et Al wants to make it illegal for the average user to run any kind of ai model locally… it’s scaremongering.

Even if po}pular image generation AIs did have images of children as part of their training dataset how many people would be able to have them generate anything even remotely like that?

Big tech will use this research, and research like it, to de-democratize artificial intelligence and take it out of the hands of ordinary people while actual pedophiles are training image generation AIs on actual child sexual assault media.

Sooner or later someone with a full blown cp generating stable diffusion model will be found and big tech is going to latch on to it like a lamprey on a shark, doing everything in their power to best the world over the head with it and ensure only they have the tools to make aim

Excepting yep and Yandex virtually everything else is just a front end for Google / bing afsikm unless I’m incorrect about that?

Oh yeah. Cities rock… fuck the country.

https://soundcloud.com/kringo-sturng. I uploaded the first but to my SoundCloud ²hich I started at a friend’s behest.

I get my vyvanse from the pharmacy. Started it a few years back but I was never really productive about things until I lost my father to lung cancer. I’d always felt like life is short and tried to seize the day but it dawned on me that when I went I’d leave nothing behind. So I’ve been just… Creating. Learning how to create things j want to create but can’t. If I died tomorrow there’s be some evidence I was here, for a while anyway. It makes me feel more accepting of my inevitable death.

Also I’m definitely abnormal and pretty creative. When you stop caring about whether anything you make is good and just focus on the act itself you get better. It’s the damnedest thing.

This is why I don’t want Lemmy to become huge. Keep the idiots out.

I stopped gaming, watch almost no TV and it’s been like this for about a year. It just kind of happened. I’ve learned python and am getting the hang of bash, I’ve actually been making progress on my hip hopera about casual every day political extremism, I’ve redecorated my house using generative ai (in fact it’s what’s actually allowed me to work on my hip hopera because I do not sound great tapping even if I’ve got rhymes for days), repainted most of my home, refinished my bath tub, made an 8 foot tall demon statue out of cement that, while terrifying at first, I’ve come to feel quite a bit of fondness for. Also built my girlfriend a life sized turtle statue for her birthday, created a short comic book and action figure for a superhero alter ego for same girlfriend for Christmas , learned how to use a whole host of generative ai technologies, wrote a 60 page Star Trek the next generation erotic fan fiction which I’ve begun recording using audio AI models I’ve trained of the Enterprise crew for maximum effect (I’m ashamed this exists honestly but I’ll be damned if I let an abomination go to waste), replaced the faces and voices of every character in the empire strikes back with my face and voice and distributed to my friends, so many things.

It’s weird to look back on this last year and a) see all the things I’ve done and b) realize that there’s so many years where I did literally nothing

I don’t want a huge influx of users. Lemmy is good. I like Lemmy. A flood of people enshitify it.

My own theory is that they tokenize key words and phrases with an AI so that they’re not sending the actual audio data. Then it’s stored in a form some AI can parse but isn’t technically user data so they can skirt legislation around that.

A tokenized collection of key phrases omitting delimiters in text format is going be much, much less than audio, or a transcript.

It actually looks like he could eat her. Snakes expand. A lot.

What is this???

I liked kagi for the first couple months I had it but then I noticed the results seems to be getting worse. Google tier. I cancelled because why pay for that?

I’m not sure if the results were better at first or whether I just noticed flaws more the longer I used it.

I’m often not even bothering to search for technical issues now. There’s been a big mindset shift in me. If I can’t figure it out on my own then pack it up and move on to the next thing. It’s a 5050 shot at best whether you’ll get help on a forum and search is a dumpster fire everywhere. I’m learning a lot more this way and retaining but fuck me running is it ever frustrating

It’s still just Google and ddg and whatnot though.,?

Like. There’s only a few search engines. Bing. Google. Yandex. Yep.

I haven’t found aggregating them with search to be even remotely useful because more garbage is still garbage

Lived there for about five years. Pretty sure my small backwater burg was built over a hell mouth. Very interesting high school years. Teenagers aren’t smart but even relative to that low standard willful stupidity was almost as abundant as substance abuze, field cars, and animals that live in a weird Twilight zone between pet and wild around a house that lives in a weird Twilight zone between being renovated and being whole.

War is diplomacy when all other means have failed. The same is true for revolution and resistance id say.

Violence isn’t the only resort. It’s the last one. And often unnecessary. Though not always.

Don’t you just love how with phones you don’t really have one?

Google is breaking their backs locking down Android tighter than a nun’s cooch, and generally enshitifyijg every garbage product they offer. Where’s my third fucking option?