Good.

All this bill would have done is given OpenAI/Anthropic and such an effective monopoly (and probably destroy the planet with their insane scaling schemes) by destroying the open model ecosystem. I think fediverse vs. corporate social media is a good analogy, and this is kinda like sniping the Fediverse because it’s “too dangerous” if it gets too big, without actually being specific on how to deal with that, but actually sniping it because its a competitive threat.

And yes, OpenAI opposed this, but that was lip service. Don’t believe a word that comes out of Altman’s mouth.

This is stupid and I hope he gets his butt handed to him, but:

A federal judge agreed with the Office and contrasted AI images to photography, which also uses a processor to capture images, but it is the human that decides on the elements of the picture, unlike AI imagery where the computer decides on the picture elements.

Journey outside the world of API models (like Midjourney) and you can use imagegen tools where " the human that decides on the elements of the picture"

It can be anything from area prompting (kinda drawing bounding boxes where you want things to go) to controlnet/ipadapter models using some other image as reference, to the “creator” making a sketch and the AI “coloring it in” or fleshing it out, to an artist making a worthy standalone painting and letting the AI “touch it up” or change the style (for instance, to turn a digital painting or a pencil sketch to something resembling a physical painting, watercolor, whatever).

The later is already done in photoshop (just not as well) and is generally not placed into the AI bin.

In other words, this argument isn’t going to hold up, as the line is very blurry. Legislators and courts are going to have to come up with something more solid.

Isn’t that a massive security risk?

Like, what if the U.S was using Roscosmos satellite links in drones? I’d certainly be raising an eyebrow.

Maybe so… but I feel like this is one of the biggest mistakes in the post WWII order. Imagine what things would be like if the UN had more teeth (and no security council)

“You know this war we’re slow-walking? That we keep almost negotiating a ceasefire to? Yeah, let’s keep sabotaging that, and start another war, just in case.”

I also kinda sympathize with American allies looking on from the outside now, as the U.S. is going to no doubt unconditionally support this, because… yeah.

I’m really shocked at how many people (apparently) shell out for onlyfans, subscriptions and such.

I swear, I’m the only sane one, not the only insane one.

Good! Try the IQM, XS, and XSS quantizations as well, especially if you try a 14B, as they “squeeze” the model into less space better than the Q3_K quantizations.

Yeah I’m liking the 32B as well. If you are looking for speed just for ultilitarian Q/A, you might want to keep a Deepseek Lite V2 Code GGUF on hand, as it’s uber fast partially offloaded.

A Qwen 2.5 14B IQ3_M should completely fit in your VRAM, with longish context, with acceptable quality.

An IQ4_XS will just barely overflow but should still be fast at short context.

And while I have not tried it yet, the 14B is allegedly smart.

Also, what I do on my PC is hook up my monitor to the iGPU so the GPU’s VRAM is completely empty, lol.

Oh, and you HAVE to try the new Qwen 2.5 14B.

The whole lineup is freaking sick, 34B it outscoring llama 3.1 70B in a lot of benchmarks, and in personal use it feels super smart.

You can try a smaller IQ3 imatrix quantization to speed it up, but 22B is indeed tight for 8GB.

If someone comes out with an AQLM for it, it might completely fit in VRAM, but I’m not sure it would even work for a Pascal card TBH.

I hate turn based combat too, but it was super enjoyable in coop. And it’s quite good for being turn based.

It’s also real-time outside of combat, FYI.

For solo, I’d probably get the mod that automates your companions, and reduce the difficulty to your taste to compensate.

It should be the first, no question.

Still an understatement, it deserves it and more.

I don’t even like turned based games. I don’t like most high fantasy. But holy moly, what a ride BG3 is.

I’m just gonna be pissed of their mixed support of modding (due to wotc) kills the modding community. If Skyrim and Rimworld can have a whole universe of fan content, BG3 should too.

It’s still everywhere in my news/internet diet.

It’s bleeding, for sure, but it’s big. Its gone bad. But I think its premature to say its collapse is a good thing, because it just won’t go away.

It’s not dead though, it’s still linked to everywhere, from big news to niche communities because it still has that critical mass and inertia.

And I have to be cynical of the Fediverse, but realistically, what replaces it, at least here in the US? Discord? No, thanks, I’d at least rather have information be public.

I’m speaking as someone who has never used Twitter, but I can’t ignore it, as much as I’d like to.

The behavior is configurable just like it is on linux, UAC can be set to require a password every time.

But I think its not set this way by default because many users don’t remember their passwords, lol. You think I’m kidding, you should meet my family…

Also, scripts can do plenty without elevation, on linux or Windows.

If they silently ignores this (as they seem to be doing?) it just screams “have your cake and eat it,” in regards to whatever WotC imposed on them.

Technically they did not violate the contract. Maybe.

What? You want us to fix this, WotC? Well, you see, that would be quite expensive…

Facebook just didn’t release the code for llama imagegen.

The model you are looking for now is Flux.

^

Futurama had it right, spammers are the ultimate destroyers.

Please ask him, tape it, and don’t let the campaign managers talk him out of it.