GET OUT. OF MY CAR. NOW

It already doesn’t if you take the time to use tools like LORAS, Controlnet, and Inpainting to guide the output.

This story is a nothingburger and y’all are eating it.

Adobe After Effects. Despite being an unstable spaghetti code nightmare, there is no other viable option for professional motion graphics designers.

AI is about at creative as Adobe Photoshop is, or a pencil for that matter. A human operating it (no, not txt2img prompting) is where the creativity comes from.

Me, I’ll benefit the most. I’ve been using a locally running instance of the free and open source AI software Stable Diffusion to generate artwork for my D&D campaigns and they’ve never looked more beautiful!

It’s not smart or stupid. It does what it’s been trained on, nothing more.

LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special.

I don’t think we are.

Man I wish the Fairphone had a US version. I totally would have bought one.

I looked through a bunch of options and Nord was the cheapest though, so it was the actual service that sold me on it not the ads. Unless something cheaper has come along since, that was ~2 years ago.

Nord’s cheap and keeps my ISP off my ass for torrenting. That’s all I need.