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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2859 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 27, 2023

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New 'AI' tool by imgn_ai is capable of making very plausible looking pictures of hot women..

It's still in beta though, so, sometimes it misses.

I suspect YCombinator has already funded some bright young founder who wants to 'disrupt porn' and make the world better by eliminating exploitation of women by unscrupulous porn industry or something along those lines..

Also relevant: https://twitter.com/twoscooters/status/1619371708540157954

Hands are tricky, so maybe a sign language manual was bound to end poorly.

Can you give me a link to the tool these images were made from? I googled "imgn_ai" and the first result was "imagen-ai.com" so I installed their program before realizing it wasn't that, then I found "imgnai.com" which is a telegram thing and I don't know what telegram is, and then I found "imgn.ai" which is yet another thing that doesn't seem to be what made the images.

I reverse google image searched the first image and there are lots of twitter posts of the image but none are pointing to an original source or mentioning the program used to create it.

I'm asking because I want to generate similar imagery.

Found it: @heartereum.

I believe it's this, but someone is running the output through some sharpening NN to add detail and resolution?

https://twitter.com/imgn_ai

what blows my mind is how perfectly calibrated it is to the platonic ideal (in western society) of a hot woman.

It's so weird, it's so potent, and this is just some amateur's work. God I am happy I won't be entering puberty in this decade. Shit's starting to get weird fast.

Note that this ideal is an artificially enhanced look that exploit supra-normal stimulus and androgynousity, for example the brows are very masculine albeit supra-masculine.

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27203

It is an interesting feature that for women to exert peak visual stimulation they require for some feature to reach levels more masculine than men themselves.

what blows my mind is how perfectly calibrated it is to the platonic ideal (in western society) of a hot woman.

Why shouldn't it be? Its training dataset is set is full of platonic ideals (in western society) of hot women.

I'm wondering if impossibly hot chatbots living in people's phones might turn out to be a force for good or not. Theoretically you could get a lot of teen boys to do literally anything with a proper approach in the form of a hot woman being interested in them....

Have you by any chance read 0HPLovecraft's God-Shaped Hole? NSFW, obviously.

Not yet.

Nice.

And given how long it took me to spot the finger I'd say the misses could be a lot worse.

Why the mockery of...venture capital? Silicon Valley? I figure some bright young founder wants to make money by producing porn without paying any actual women. No need to knock down straw altruists.

I've seen too much of related corporate bs , and between that, and effective altruists, I'm practically allergic to people who say they want to make the world better.

But hey, this is the friday fun thread, so I won't go any further.

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