"The Woman and the Puppet" is a novel written by Pierre Louÿs, a French author, in 1898. The story revolves around the tumultuous and passionate relationship between Don Mateo Diaz, a wealthy Spanish nobleman, and Concha Perez, a beautiful and manipulative Andalusian woman.
I've been having some fun using AI to help me create a mascot for my affiliate program start guide. I'm really loving how much more fun it makes my landing page, compared to stock images of people. It's a great way to prototype a character.
I might make everyone into mermaids on this site 😅
"It’s also not mysterious how badly [MML] backprop systems work sometimes. Similarity in their latent space is only intermittently similar to our notions of similarity. If you ask DALL-E for a photorealistic image of Vladimir Putin rollerskating in Red Square, you may get something that is astonishingly like that, except that he has three legs. We think having three legs makes someone extremely dissimilar to Putin, but image generators don’t."
Polygala × dalmaisiana, commonly known as the Sweet Pea Shrub or the Winged Polygala, is a hybrid plant species in the Polygalaceae family. It is a cross between Polygala myrtifolia and Polygala virgata, both native to South Africa.
Among the many reasons we should resist the widespread application of generative #AI an important, if less concrete, one is to preserve the freedom to change. This class of method crystallizes the past and present and re-generates it over and over again. The net result, if it's used en masse, is foreclosing the future.
If you're stats-poisoned: human flourishing requires the joint distribution of the future to be different from that of the past and present. We, collectively, form a non-stationary system, and forcing the human system to be stationary is a kind of violence.
Ranunculus andersonii, commonly known as Anderson's Buttercup, is a species of flowering plant in the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family. It is native to the western United States, primarily found in the states of Nevada, California, and Arizona. The plant is named after Charles Lewis Anderson, a 19th-century American botanist.
Dyschirius aratus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was first described by the French entomologist Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean in 1825. The species is part of the Dyschirius genus, which includes over 800 species worldwide.
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Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.
In an effort to address this power asymmetry, we have designed and implemented Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space.
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Regarding that last boost, I'm starting to conceive of LLMs and image generators as a phenomenon of (American) society eating its seed corn. If you're not familiar with the phrase, "seed corn" is the corn you set aside to plant next year, as opposed to the corn you eat this year. If you eat your seed corn this year, you have no seeds to plant next year, and thus create a crisis for all future years, a crisis that could have been avoided with better management.
LLMs and image generators mass ingest human-created texts and images. Since the human creators of the ingested texts and images are not compensated and not even credited, this ingestion puts negative pressure on the sharing of such things. Creative acts functioning as seed for future creative acts becomes depressed. Creative people will have little choice but to lock down, charge for, or hide their works. Otherwise, they'll be ingested by innumerable computer programs and replicated ad infinitum without so much as a credit attached. Seed corn that had been freely given forward will become difficult to get. Eaten.
Eating your seed corn is meant to be a last ditch act you take out of desperation after exhausting all other options. It's not meant to be standard operating procedure. What a bleak society that does this, consuming itself in essence.
To put it differently, these tools and techniques are drawing out the value of works created by creative people without replenishing the originators of that value. That's a horribly dehumanizing way of looking at it, as if people were value spigots, but that's the problem isn't it? This is a dehumanzing arrangement. We don't need to be doing this.