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Ah this is a great post, thanks for sharing this. I completely agree with you!

Fun anecdote related to the first point about AI posters etc: my non-technical mother and her group of elderly Mahjong friends, who don’t care about or are completely ambivalent about AI, ate at a small restaurant in their town recently, and they were confused and annoyed by the new menu that was one of those maximalist and grotesque one-shot cheap model designs. Now it’s spoiled for her and she notices the awful styles everywhere in person and online. So I do think the tide there must be turning soon, at least against that minimal effort slop ad/menu copy

I love the Eno quote, I think I’ll check out that diary

Oh wow, throwback! Pretty remarkable how looking thru these janky old images actually did give me a sort of fuzzy nostalgic feeling. The tells/flaws are such a recognizable style. I remember absolutely abusing the DALLE endpoints when we first got access after the waitlist ended. This was in my old job, where work looked a lot different from today. Also just a vastly different time in my life, funny how much time flies in four years.

(I do wish this had a before/after sort of comparison to demonstrate newer sota models handling the same prompts)

I’m a bit confused by the wording here, does it mean the credentials were hacked and then used to perform a mass distillation campaign?

This is awesome! The truth table lightning round took me by surprise, I am rustier than I thought...

One note: It isn't immediately obvious that the In/Out nodes can be connected to multiple wires, made the first few rounds harder to work thru.