I'm genuinely frightened that they're going to fix the hand problem soon. It's one of the last tells that's reasonably consistently reliable. They're going to build some engine that just does hands and interprets a correct hand orientation based on the position of the arms, looks up a 3d reference model because these things can't abstract, and then sketches in a hand over the LLM generated image.
It's so fucked. We've evolved the uncanny valley response for god knows how many millions of years so we know when something is wrong with a face - it's dead, or it's a person who is seriously ill, or it's not a person at all. And now they've mostly defeated that and we're counting teeth and fingers.
I'm genuinely frightened that they're going to fix the hand problem soon.
I hate to break it to you, but that's been varying degrees of solved for over a year. Most AI slop that just contains ludicrous basic errors is left unfixed because the people who spam AI slop are principally just incredibly stupid, lazy chuds slamming the treat button like it's a gacha pull, but even something as basic as automatic1111 or its relatives allowed manual inpainting to reroll broken parts of the image, then added optional automatic secondary processes to detect faces and hands and run an automated inpainting process to fix them with dedicated "fix faces and hands" models.
Now currently relevant open models range from "sometimes it doesn't fuck up" to "the only tell is that proportions are subtly off and that sometimes there are continuity issues that give away that there's not any sort of reality behind the image nor even an internal model of what is there in places you can't directly see, but it's less glaring than it used to be" and it's only getting more horrifying. Looking at "realistic" models always makes me feel sort of sick, even beyond the rote response I feel whenever I look at civitai.
I'm pretty sure the hand problem will be fixed, all right... while breaking the planet we live in a little more in the trade.
This entire Rube Goldbergian machine complex spends so much electricity and demands so much water and expels so much pollution just to try to convincingly trick us into believing it's real, all because that's the mandate of the owners of the damn things, and what's expected from the slop hogs at this point.
Asking someone to paint a picture might involve paying a worker. Fuuuuuuck that, this is THE FUTURE.
It's completely sick, capitalism's obsession with cutting labor out of production taken somewhere I don't even know how to say mean things about.
On the plus side, though, I'm increasingly confident that my fears of these fucks perfecting terminators, wiping out the working class, and living eternally in their little New Zealand technobunkers served by a world of robots is unfounded. These toolbags have no idea what they're doing, or they're all trying to convince everyone else that it's not a grift long enough to cash out.
Looking from the outside in, making an elaborate guessing machine that narrows down what the user wanted in the first place (minus the inconvenient workers) by doing a cryptocurrency style massive waste of energy that makes a lot of waste carbon is such an insidiously apocalyptic idea that it'd have been brilliant and fun fiction if we weren't living it right now.
I'm genuinely frightened that they're going to fix the hand problem soon. It's one of the last tells that's reasonably consistently reliable. They're going to build some engine that just does hands and interprets a correct hand orientation based on the position of the arms, looks up a 3d reference model because these things can't abstract, and then sketches in a hand over the LLM generated image.
It's so fucked. We've evolved the uncanny valley response for god knows how many millions of years so we know when something is wrong with a face - it's dead, or it's a person who is seriously ill, or it's not a person at all. And now they've mostly defeated that and we're counting teeth and fingers.
I hate to break it to you, but that's been varying degrees of solved for over a year. Most AI slop that just contains ludicrous basic errors is left unfixed because the people who spam AI slop are principally just incredibly stupid, lazy chuds slamming the treat button like it's a gacha pull, but even something as basic as automatic1111 or its relatives allowed manual inpainting to reroll broken parts of the image, then added optional automatic secondary processes to detect faces and hands and run an automated inpainting process to fix them with dedicated "fix faces and hands" models.
Now currently relevant open models range from "sometimes it doesn't fuck up" to "the only tell is that proportions are subtly off and that sometimes there are continuity issues that give away that there's not any sort of reality behind the image nor even an internal model of what is there in places you can't directly see, but it's less glaring than it used to be" and it's only getting more horrifying. Looking at "realistic" models always makes me feel sort of sick, even beyond the rote
response I feel whenever I look at civitai.
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Well.
That's bleak.
I'm pretty sure the hand problem will be fixed, all right... while breaking the planet we live in a little more in the trade.
This entire Rube Goldbergian machine complex spends so much electricity and demands so much water and expels so much pollution just to try to convincingly trick us into believing it's real, all because that's the mandate of the owners of the damn things, and what's expected from the slop hogs at this point.
Asking someone to paint a picture might involve paying a worker. Fuuuuuuck that, this is THE FUTURE.
It's completely sick, capitalism's obsession with cutting labor out of production taken somewhere I don't even know how to say mean things about.
On the plus side, though, I'm increasingly confident that my fears of these fucks perfecting terminators, wiping out the working class, and living eternally in their little New Zealand technobunkers served by a world of robots is unfounded. These toolbags have no idea what they're doing, or they're all trying to convince everyone else that it's not a grift long enough to cash out.
Looking from the outside in, making an elaborate guessing machine that narrows down what the user wanted in the first place (minus the inconvenient workers) by doing a cryptocurrency style massive waste of energy that makes a lot of waste carbon is such an insidiously apocalyptic idea that it'd have been brilliant and fun fiction if we weren't living it right now.