Every week, the social media hype-train seems to find new ways to sensationalize generative AI tools. Most recently, a new technique that allows users to produce optical illusions went viral, with some describing the results as AI-generated images with “subliminal” messages.
These writers got the same energy as an envious teenage girl
What does that even mean? It’s literally a first paragraph summary of the body of the article? In what way does it sound “envious” and from the mind of a teenage girl?
What’s going on is them ruining cats for me. Every time I see one of these pictures I want to puke at how unrealistic the animals look. I found myself to truly despise AI generated content with burning passion.
Y’know, I’ve seen some shitty pictures of animals. Hell, I’ve drawn shitty pictures of animals. But I have never vomited as a result of viewing such a picture. Friend, you might want to see a doctor.
You have some serious mental issues, I’d recommend looking for a psychiatrist. If you don’t, I’ll generate an AI image of your face – this is a real threat!
ControlNet uses the AI image-generating tool Stable Diffusion, and one of its initial uses was generating fancy QR codes using the code as an input image. That idea was then taken further, with some users developing a workflow that lets them specify any image or text as a black-and-white mask that implants itself into the generated image—kind of like an automated, generative version of the masking tool in Photoshop.
“What happened there was that this user discovered that if they used the QR Code ControlNet but instead of feeding it a QR code, they fed it some other black-and-white patterns, they could create nice optical illusions,” said Passos. “You can now send a conditioning image and the model blends in a pattern that satisfies that while still making a coherent image at the same time.”
Yes, the article explains what Control Net is for those of us who haven’t heard of it before. And the article says that Control Net was (apparently) initially meant to be used for qr codes.
Sorry to be indirect - ControlNet is a Stable Diffusion tool that generally allows for generating images with input control frames. The QR code use-case was a single potential use that went viral.
I was just eye-rolling a bit over the expert in the article also not understanding what ControlNet is, since it’s propagating an incorrect history.
Depends on what device I’m looking at it on. The thumbnail preview makes the words super obvious, but the full size version on a computer screen is almost unreadable, even if I squint.
No, i think it ws right the first time. They think something that is super-liminal is subliminal. That’s the big obvious thing, vs. the small subtle thing. So, in conparison, they would think a punch in the face is a subtle disagreement. So big obvious thing vs. small subtle thing.
I think it’s called X because of Space X. Which follows simpleton Microsoft pattern of thinking basic numbers and letters are somehow “cool” - Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One. With the next one everyone’s mind will explode.
It’s called X because that was the name of his first company before PayPal bough it. He wants X to be an ‘everything app’ including banking. It will fail.
Funnily enough gay sex was fine in ancient Rome (as long as you were the dominant one) but having sex in the light (whether natural or candle light) was seen as a massive taboo.
(Amongst the upper and middle classes anyway, I doubt the majority of people cared)
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