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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   3214 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 21, 2024

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Due to my recent ban for repeatedly being snide, I got bored and checked out Stable Diffusion. Played around with a few of the newer models.

Pure black magic. I've heard and seen about it, but trying it out is something else.

If you've got one of the popular 'hobby' models and a good GPU (3070+), it can produce full HD pictures of arbitrarily pretty and shaped women in about 15 seconds each. Upscaling is a bit trickier but also works. Seems though people are more keen on making horrors beyond human understanding, at least going by what's on civitai. I imagine it does guys but I've never tried, as it'd never occur for me to look at men for anything else but establishing their danger level (size, scars, gang tattoos etc).

It's just nuts. By itself it's really not great - poses are incredibly hard to prompt, but with photoshop and controlnet and maybe a few extra model to do architecture, you can just make pictures of .. whatever you want, in a level of realism that practically no people will spot without trying hard. (not that they even try, wanting to know whether an image is an image of something real seems to be a rare quality).

Not sure what this is good for, apart from making fake still photos (who even trusts those anymore?) Still, same methods used for 3d content can make game development easier, but again - what is it good for? Ads, illustrations, propaganda* and distraction. Is that worth the investment? For sure, models that'll do video like this are going to be incredibly valuable, but this first step seems niche. Ads are poison, nobody cares for books, propaganda is mostly video and we don't need more distraction.

  • not that relevant stuff blacked out Would say, photorealistic propaganda be more effective than drawn?

You know the common meme of "this is how world would look if X ? If someone for fun created beautiful architecture -not like post WW2 stuff that's only attractive to architects and snobs, filled the very clean city with impossible beautiful people and alluring fashions, maybe strategically spread it around - if it were good, it'd probably see some distribution. Could that possibly nudge things in a better way? No idea. Maybe worth a try.

I feel like the propaganda impact will lessen over time. Within a couple of years even the dumbest out of touch old people will know that “every picture can be faked by AI”.

See this piece of propaganda.

I suspect it's more effective than one made in the "political cartoon" style, even if nobody would confuse it with a candid photograph.

Maybe. On the other hand, lies in text have been possible forever. And even though everyone knows that the media lies, people breathlessly repeat the lies that confirm their biases.

And this isn't just limited to stupid people. People repeat misinformation even here. I've fallen for stories that are "too good to check" myself.

No, I mean the propaganda impact of beauty / aesthetics of still photos. People use attractive models in ads because they work.

Later, once there is video and you can have impossibly charismatic AI models it's going to be way worse because that'll definitely work.

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