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xanados  2yr ago (reddit.com)   3011 thread views

Reddit bans AI art model user for too many parentheses

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So it turns out that the triple-parenthesis thing can get you banned from reddit even for benign nonsense. Some context: in some open source AI image models, you can use parentheses to emphasize terms that you want the model to pay more attention to. In this case, the author wrote "(((detailed face)))" and some other terms in their image prompt.

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This really would have been better as a comment in the Culture War thread than as a thread of its own. We'd prefer people not start new threads just to talk about one particular CW incident.

In my defense, I didn't have any culture war commentary to go with it. As I said in another comment, I viewed this as being more related to site history than to culture war per se.

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