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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a drunk, stupid tech bro idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does generative AI create convincing lighting in images?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an AI researcher and yes, that’s basically right. There is no special “lighting mechanism” portion of the network designed before training. Just, after seeing enough images with correct lighting (either for text to image transformer models or GANs), it will understand what correct lighting should look like. It’s all about the distribution of the training data. A simple example is this-person-does-not-exist.com. All of the training images are high resolution, close-up, well-lit headshots. If all the training data instead had unrealistic lighting, you would get unrealistic lighting out. If it’s something like 50/50, you’ll get every part of that spectrum between good lighting and bad lighting at the output.

  That’s not to say that the overall training scheme of especially something like GPT-4 doesn’t include secondary training operations for more complex tasks. But lighting of images is a simple thing to get correct with enough training images.

  As an aside, I said that website above is a simple example, but I remember less than 6 years ago when that came out and it was revolutionary, so it’s crazy how fast the space has moved forward in such a short time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha, as someone that works in AI research, good luck to them. The first is a very hard problem that won’t just be prompt engineering with your OpenAI account (why not just use 3D blueprints for weapons that already exist?) and the second is certifiably stupid. There are plenty of ways to make bombs already that don’t involve training a model that’s an expert in chemistry. A bunch of amateur 8chan half-brains probably couldn’t follow a Medium article, let alone do ground breaking research.

  But like you said, if they want to test the viability of those bombs, I say go for it! Make it in the garage!