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Yaakov clearly said they're now working only on that, so stopping work on everything else, that's bad.
Annoying, but well, that's how SE works these days.
Everything is on our radar. We add status-review when we have done our internal triage and have added it to our list of stuff to evaluate. We have a slight delay on that for these items here, as we are concentrating on the Staging Ground release at the moment. So triage (and status labels) will be coming soon. — Yaakov Ellis ♦Dec 6 at 8:23
See: "we are concentrating on the Staging Ground release at the moment"
That's going to be a very long moment since it's a very big project.
So we can forget about working on the new inbox bugs/requests.
@Feeds no Ryan, no Onebox
@MetaAndrewT. at least it's not "Taking drugs". Autocorrect can make you say weird stuff.
(based on your own most used words. ;))
So Ben using the word "taking" more than "talking", that's legit.
And at least they stopped adding that weird unicode character to the blog titles.
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Given the mess they had with the image posting bots in the past (and those were user-choosen pictures) I bet they will be enthusiast at the idea of a bot that generates pictures based on an user description.... right, @JNat?
@SPArcheon there has been worse cases, mainly people posting ChatGPT generated answers on the ban ChatGPT posts, luckily all deleted, most also suspended.
Ask JNat. They had their fair share of issues back when they were running because people would have them post not-so-safe pictures. Now, figure what would happen if a bot would just post the result of a stable diffusion prompt here. And now, imagine if users avatar on the network were generated from a prompt too.
I didn't mean "generate an avatar, upload here", I was talking about a "what-if" scenario where Stack had the horrible idea of generating avatars on the fly based on the user prompt.
I really can't see any problem there, and like any improper avatar, mods can trivially reset it when seeing it or someone flagging a post of such a user. It doesn't matter if it was copied from shady website, or generated by super complex AI on the fly.
Unlike answers, there's no problem of having to check and review.
@ShadowTheKidWizard works if there are a few cases. But what I suggested was that instead of uploading a picture users would write a prompt. So every single one would have the possibility to end up unsafe
TL/DR: You won't be able to switch back to your old Gravatar image if you change your email (or have changed your email in the past). Please save and re-upload your Gravatar image if you want to keep it going forward.
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@JourneymanGeek I don't understand what it really means, but as you see above, dry fact is people still using Gravatar. Dunno if old or new email, doesn't really matter.
Sounds like some very minor change they did.
status-not-gravatar
hmm something just popped into my mind
@SPA does balpha using AI in his unicornify service?
@ShadowTheKidWizard Balpha unicorns are more of a procedural generation.
two different things.
Stable diffusion starts from random noise and then tries to recognize patterns similar to pictures that have similar tag to the one in the prompt basically.
Unicornify instead uses a set of rules to build a unicorn picture
@ShadowTheKidWizard I am more surprised that THAT is generated that a random fractal style picture....
This one too...
especially since it was made by img-to-img of an actual action figure
@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm seeing a lot of colleagues freaking out because the ChatGPT passes their exams... It's not common that it would work in a different language so that's breaking things a bit!
@SPArcheon that's very close! I'm going to have a bit more time for this next week and I managed to get access to a better machine at work on which I got invokeAI installed... Can't wait!
@SPArcheon the key is the way they merge parts of existing images in a clean way. Someone there just knows exactly how images are built.
@curious yeah, that's very sad. Soon enough people will stop even pretending to learn or work, and use AI to learn instead of them and do whatever they have to do in their work. While they only play all day and night long.
If Google reduced the human brain, ChatGPT and the likes will make it some tiny forgotten body part, without any use.
Typical short story about the way too near future:
Kid: mommy, mommy, I got 100 in exam! Mommy: awesome, I'm really proud of you. Kid: I used ChatGPT of course. Mommy: I know, yesterday the final rebels were finally arrested. Kid: Sure, that was what the exam was about. I had no idea.
unclear how spammer has 51 rep, probably another hacked account.
Eh. I saw a thought somewhere this week... about how there's now AI to make art/images and stories. But how a whole bunch of menial and dangerous tasks aren't automated yet, because no one is interested in spending money on developing that when labor to do it is cheap.
I doubt there will be AI to do our jobs. Instead, there will be AI overlords doing the fun stuff, like art and literature, while humans slave away.
I mean, I understand you need workers for some things, but I do think an AI/robot could be used to put some prefab stuff together, or to do bricklaying/paving.
@ShadowTheKidWizard I mean, it's not necessarily dangerous but it's one of those jobs that could be automated instead of being whisked away to low-wage countries where workers are exploited and working in dangerous factory buildings that do fall on their heads.
@SPArcheon I'm not really interested in generating manga, more about exploring the implications for my field and other visual fields... If it can support ideation for various tasks and such
Spam links edited out by a local clueless user but all are pure spam ^
@JNat cross site spammer, like some recent cases, account was legit until this point but today it posted obvious spam on several sites. Maybe worth checking if SE has some new breach.
@Sha, I looked at his profile; he's been a user for over 5 years, so he might not be deleted for promoting a protest against SE. --- There are three things going on here: It's in the VLQ review queue, where I first saw it. There's a pending edit. And, it's flagged for deletion, which has already happened.
@ShadowTheKidWizard They're just focusing heavily on the Staging Ground stuff right now since it's in active testing. The inbox stuff will get addressed too, but probably not until January (devs are busy both with Staging Ground stuff and Winter Bash, and there'll be a code freeze for the holidays as usual). I should know, as I'm the CM liaison working on the inbox improvements project :)
@SPArcheon I read that as "bakukan" for some reason
@SPArcheon I vaguely recall there was some similar project but for anime style. I don't remember the name, but if I ever find it, remind me to post it here
@V2Blast so it would have been better to just delay the Saves and Inbox projects until a time they can actually listen to the given feedback. Rushing to publish changes, then not being able to fix the bugs, is just bad.
Not your fault, neither any dev, it's purely bad management decision.
We could live with Bookmarks few more months, same for the previous inbox.
@SPArcheon too long to read now
I'm bit sad that I'm among very few who don't have their minds blown by the "AI drawing art" stuff. It's nice, sure, but it's just a game. Code that create images. Nothing mind blowing in that.
@ShadowTheKidWizard what make me sad is that people are glorifying those algorithms and call them "intelligent"...like I agree it can be useful, but please, don't glorify it!
as I said once here, and on meta.SO, it's just statistics, but useful still. If you don't want to be mean, I guess Statistical Learning is better, or if you really have to, calling it Neural Network works. If you want to be a mix of "mean" and "truthful", I guess "Bruteforcing with Statistics" is a better term for those things
@ShadowTheKidWizard I feel like it's both. The hype trinity is Crypto, Quantum, and AI for a reason
then again, it's not right to put it in the same bag as crypto, since there more scam there than the other two...and I guess AI has demonstrated it is more useful and ready to use compared to Quantum
@NordTheLoftyWizard eww all the heavy stuff in one line
:P
@NordTheLoftyWizard yeah, agree AI isn't really used for scam, it's just a balloon inflated way over its capacity.
Unless you consider all those automated stock market scam programs as AI.
Now that blew my mind: the most brilliant programmers in the world hired to write code that predicts what stock will be sold in the next nano-seconds, then acting upon it, and making billions upon billions of easy money.
@ShadowTheKidWizard my bad, I did notice that it looked weird after rereading a second time
@ShadowTheKidWizard yeah, it is :/
go on github or any blogs, and see how many times they mention the term "statistics" in a sentence? less than they should, because they're too busy using the word "intelligence" instead
the only places I saw it being used quite a bit more was on scientific papers, but that's it