“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping
another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model
on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training
set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the
training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai,
and cost less than $2.”
posted 11/19/2022 8:00pm ∞
“I did consider running the Peanuts text through a GPT2
text generator, allowing the system to write the words as well — novel words, in
the style of Peanuts. Would this take me closer to committing a crime? If the
resulting output becomes indistinguishable from original works, is the model
guilty, or am I?”
Eric Drass ,
Algonuts
(June 17, 2020 )
posted 3/25/2021 9:26pm ∞
“Here is where it gets interesting. If I use the same prompt and add ‘Amazing
awesome and epic’, the picture gets noticeably better. ‘Oh,’ goes the neural
net, ‘you wanted a good picture’. And how good a picture you get depends on
exactly how you ask for it. There are several phrases you can add that seem to
make things better, like ‘trending on artstation’ or ‘unreal engine’.”
Janelle Shane ,
The art of asking nicely
(June 2, 2021 )
“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of
racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and
chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’
hues.”
James Vincent ,
Keep It Clean
(London Review of Books ,
October 20, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[Leasing] agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they
were often peers of the people they were renting to. ‘We said there’s way too
much empathy going on here,’ he said. ‘This is one of the reasons we wanted to
get pricing off-site.'”
Heather Vogell, Haru Coryne, and Ryan Little ,
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
(ProPublica ,
October 15, 2022 ,
via Ars Technica )
posted 11/6/2022 8:00pm ∞