D should be Dookie.

The shoulder fairy in Leadale, Kuu:

She’s not the cutest looking fairy ever but the way she uses body language to mimick/mock Caina’s speech is cute AF. For example, wagging her finger when Caina is lecturing her children who have been behaving badly. Or just generally popping out of Caina’s hair to stick her tongue out at an enemy 😁

Analog intelligence.

Atoms lettuce break the iceberg.

No, “your sick” makes perfect sense because it will become their sick when that employee brings it into work. Everyone can have the sick that way 👍

Upload it to Gemini and ask it to identify the font. It’s pretty good at that (even before 3.0 which is supposed to be better). I used it to identify the font used on some keycaps back when it was still on version 2.5 (which was basically the worst of all the AIs at the time).It might not have got it 100% correct but one of the fonts (of three) it suggested was close enough that I doubt laymen could tell the difference.

It’s not a shame. Have you tried this? Try it now! It only takes a minute.

Test a bunch of images against ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Ask it if the image was AI-generated. I think you’ll be surprised.

Gemini is the current king of that sort of image analysis but the others should do well too.

What do you think the experts use? LOL! They’re going to run an image through the same exact process that the chatbots would use plus some additional steps if they didn’t find anything obvious on the first pass.

I don’t think it’s irresponsible to suggest to readers that they can use an AI chatbot to examine any given image to see if it was AI-generated. Even the lowest-performing multi-model chatbots (e.g. Grok and ChatGPT) can do that pretty effectively.

Also: Why stop at one? Try a whole bunch! Especially if you’re a reporter working for the BBC!

It’s not like they give an answer, “yes: Definitely fake” or “no: Definitely real.” They will analyze the image and give you some information about it such as tell-tale signs that an image could have been faked.

But why speculate? Try it right fucking now: Ask ChatGPT or Gemini (the current king at such things BTW… For the next month at least hahaha) if any given image is fake. It only takes a minute or two to test it out with a bunch of images!

Then come back and tell us that’s irresponsible with some screenshots demonstrating why.

Or like isn’t the UK the most surveiled country with their camera system?

Ahahah! That’s a good one!

You think all those cameras are accessible to everyone or even the municipal authorities? Think again!

All those cameras are mostly useless—even for law enforcement (the only ones with access). It’s not like anyone is watching them in real time and the recordings—if they even have any—are like any IT request: Open a ticket and wait. How long? I have no idea.

Try it: If you live in the UK, find some camera in a public location and call the police to ask them, “is there an accident at (location camera is directly pointing at)?”

They will ask you all sorts of questions before answering you (just tell them you heard it through the grapevine or something) but ultimately, they will send someone out to investigate because accessing the camera is too much of a pain in the ass.

It’s the same situation here in the US. I know because the UK uses the same damned cameras and recording tech. It sucks! They’re always looking for ways to make it easier to use and every rollout of new software actually makes it harder and more complicated!

How easy is the ticket system at your work? Now throw in dozens of extra government-mandated fields 🤣

Never forget: The UK invented bureaucracy and needles paperwork!

Republicans don’t actually like faith-based initiatives. They only like faith-based corruption and only if the “faith” labels itself as Christian.

Other religions obviously have no place in the world of Republicans.

When my kids were little I used to tell them things like, “This movie was made in 1985. That was the year your mom saved Christmas!”

Then, like a decade later we were watching Back to the Future one family movie night and my daughter bursts out, “1985? That was the year mom saved Christmas!”

So proud 😁👍

Think about all the absolutely terrible writing that’s out there. Writing that people are reading because they feel like they’ve read everything else in their fetish genre already.

You can do better than that! Surely!

It’s so bad that people are resorting to using AI to write (awful) stories for them. These stories don’t make any sense yet people read them anyway. Why? Because they ran out of the other stuff they like in their little fetish genre.

Tell your story! I’m positive someone will be interested in it.

I recently wrote a novel for a writing contest: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/22194

Many people thought it was funny and entertaining but most stopped reading after the second or third chapter. The people that made it all the way to the end expressed an attitude like, “Finally! A story that’s actually unique!” And that’s exactly why I wrote it! Because I’m sick of “the same old shit” (in the isekai genre) 🤣

Write your story for you and be satisfied 👍

What model? I highly recommend trying AnimePro Flux in ComfyUI. It generates really great images in just six steps which is like 8 seconds for a 768x768 image on my 4060 TI 16GB. It’d be even faster on your 3080.

Why’d you give up on local image generation? With FLUX-based models and tools like ComfyUI, it’s actually better than what you get with cloud-based services. You have a lot more control, and the wide availability of LoRAs makes it much more fun/useful, IMHO.

Having said that, if you don’t have a modem GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM, it’s not going to be a great experience. 16GB is preferable.

My great wish is for there to be affordable, fast GPUs with at least 32GB of VRAM. That would be enough to play a modern AAA game while also running other AI workloads at the same time (e.g. as a secondary aspect of the game).

I have two really fantastic game ideas that can’t really exist without the average gamer having access to that level of hardware. Not for fancy graphics; for the AI possibilities 😁

Something tells me the police investigating this will move at a snail’s pace.

What the actual fuck? Was this written by the meat production/processing industry which is the actual cause of all those nitrates‽

There’s no fucking way that a handful of Amazon data centers are using up enough water to increase nitrate concentrations. They’re waaaaaaaay too small for that.

Think about it: If you evaporate that much water full of nitrates on copper/aluminum heat sinks what do you get? A thick ass film that ruins their effectiveness. Calcium/scale is much worse so what do data centers do? They preprocess and filter the water.

When you filter nitrates out of the water you end up with slime. What do you do with that slime? You throw it away. As in, in the trash. You don’t flush it down the drain! That’s a one-way ticket to clogged drains!

Some data centers can use a lot of water but not enough that it can make a dent in nitrate concentrations in a region that has been polluted by the meat processing industry for decades.

Amazon is a villain, yes! But they’re not the correct villain for this issue.

If the cost of using it is lower than the alternative, and the market willing to buy it is the same. If the current cloud hosted tools cease to be massively subsidized, and consumers choose to avoid it, then it’s inevitably a historical footnote, like turbine powered cars, Web 3.0, and laser disk.

There’s another scenario: Turns out that if Big AI doesn’t buy up all the available stock of DRAM and GPUs, running local AI models on your own PC will become more realistic.

I run local AI stuff all the time from image generation to code assistance. My GPU fans spin up for a bit as the power consumed by my PC increases but other than that, it’s not much of an impact on anything.

I believe this is the future: Local AI models will eventually take over just like PCs took over from mainframes. There’s a few thresholds that need to be met for that to happen but it seems inevitable. It’s already happening for image generation where the local AI tools are so vastly superior to the cloud stuff there’s no contest.

At the heart of every LLM is a random number generator. They’re word prediction algorithms! They don’t think and they can’t learn anything.

They’re The Mystery Machine: Sometimes Shaggy gets out and is like, “I dunno man. That seems like a bad idea. Get some help, zoinks!” Other times Fred gets out and is like, “that noose isn’t going to hold your weight! Let me help you make a better one…” Occasionally it’s Scooby, just making shit up that doesn’t make any sense, “tie a Scooby snack to it and it’ll be delicious!”

Her problem is she cited the wrong bible!

Clearly, she should’ve cited the real bible that has the true word of the gods in it. Not that atheist Christian bible!

Remember: If you don’t believe in my gods, you’re an atheist!

In other news, turns out pop music is very formulaic and easy for a machine to generate!

The distance between, “all of this was made on a computer with minimal effort” and, “this music was entirely generated by AI” is very short indeed.