SubstantialNothingness [none/use name]

TikTok, etc. take tone-policing oneself to new extremes. Especially because of the ambiguity of what will be censored. It makes me worry.

This projection is as close as we will get to confirmation that US sock puppets are active in the conversation.

edit: holy shit - she’s calling for another red scare, too! they must be really desperate

It sounds like you’re being hyperbolic again.

idk if zed was playing a bit or what, but you’re right as far as I can tell.

They put everyone who was there in jail for life basically.

???

Tarrio has the longest conviction (and he wasn’t even there) at 22 years.

For those who received prison time, the median is 150 days.

36% of people convicted didn’t receive any prison time.

4.5% is too low for me, but I probably drink more slowly than you do.

The Raid 2 is on my classics list, good choice!

Where’s Roger Waters at? Did he give up trying to smack sense into Yorke?

I’m seeing increasing numbers of posters whose communication style is literally trolling.

It appears they don’t understand that they are trolling, because they think it is a normal and effective method of discourse participation. They don’t recognize trolling as trolling - especially not their own.

Shoju and sparkling grape juice.

There’s really nothing Americans (French, Dutch, etc.) can realistically do, is there? I mean, once you account for the percentage of people (and institutions) who actually want the fascism. It’s going to happen, and all anyone will be able to do is damage control, isn’t it? I feel like that’s the way Gaza is, and climate change too. Give us enough time and the world can change but… we’ve got some real big problems that aren’t working on that timeline, don’t we?

I wouldn’t do it lol. But you could create a workflow in which you could make similar products using only prompts and some custom tooling.

The creator of this piece said that it can’t be made by a prompt. What they are insinuating, is that different inputs make their outputs more or less superior. But that’s such an arbitrary and ignorant argument when you come at it from the view of LLM product design.

It used to be that parameters were input at the command line. Obviously this becomes impractical for mature use cases, so UI frontends were created to give us sliders and checkboxes. That matches the kind of environments that they are already using. But these are also typically power users (by interest, not necessarily competency) and we’ve seen a new iteration of UI designs for consumer LLM products like Dall-E and Midjourney. Just because the LLM has a user-friendly skin does not mean the functionality is any less capable - you can pass parameters in prompts, for example.

But if you were to have a use case for a product that uses ControlNet with only prompts, like I said, it would benefit from extra tooling: Presets, libraries, defaults, etc. With these in place more powerful functionality would be more quickly accessible through the prompt format. I’m not Nostradamus, but one area in which simpler inputs are much more desirable than power user dashboards, is in products that are intended to be used by drivers (not all of which are related to the act of driving itself - like voice2text messaging).

I guess my point is that the argument that “my sliders are better than your prompt” is like saying the back door gets you into the house better than the front door, it’s really nothing more than a schoolyard pissing contest that shows a limited perspective on the matter.

Probably not made strictly from prompting. More likely Stable Diffusion + ControlNet.

Because that is so much more difficult to use. (It’s not.)

I’m pretty sure they are saying that this piece of… well, let’s just say this “piece”, wasn’t created by prompting. They are trying to place themselves above the most proficient prompters.

Which infers that they used methods that give the creator more control, such as ControlNet. ControlNet makes a structure for the generative AI to build on, which means you can guarantee certain features appear in the final output. So you could, for example, reskin a real building with fantastic imagery while retaining the building’s original form.

But unless someone is capable of tailoring their own ControlNet-style software, they’re still really just a script kiddie. (In this case, a script kiddie with no taste but a lot of problems.)

Of course, you could also train a LLM to utilize ControlNet settings solely through prompts, since LLMs allow us to use our own personal vocabulary as a high-level Natural Language Programming language. However script kiddies are fundamentally reactionary in their own right. They aren’t good at thinking for themselves (or perhaps at all). They will eat what is put on their plate, but if we place them in the kitchen then we will surely all starve.

Liberate Ryuukyuu Rettou!

Just moving the window a little more.

I don’t think we’ve got personality mapped yet, but I do enjoy watching people squirm through text at the ways we can potentially quantify ourselves.

And then I squirm through text when I watch people talk about all of the ways we can potentially categorize ourselves.

I think it’s probably because recall is often a demonstration of proficiency - think how consuming/reading language is easier than producing/writing it. Not the only sign of proficiency, but one of them.

On the other hand, we benefit more from current technology by being proficient with references, and proficiency over an entire field is now inefficient and/or unattainable. Even in languages - native languages at that - most of us only become proficient at producing contemporary styles, whereas it often takes specialists to decypher old texts with appropriate linguistic and historical context. But now chatbots can fill in for the specialist by acting as a more widely available and in-depth reference, I guess.

It’s just a reaction to the image of the group they are fighting. When Hamas is perceived as ISIS, Israel is automatically more friendly by comparison in people’s minds.

The way I tend to think of it, is how authority is managed. In a vertically-oriented power system it is managed through layers of hierarchy.

What many anarchists aim for, including anarcho-communists, is a horizontal power system that doesn’t have hierarchies to be exploited.

If there are rules, there is a power structure, but it can be organized through vertical and horizontal implementations. Authority in the former would be handed down, while authority in the latter would be participatory and derived through mutual agreement.