no matter your stance on the morality of language models, it’s just plain rude to use a machine to generate text meant for people. i would never do that. if i didn’t take the time to write it, why would you take the time to read it?

from this close, they always look like landscape.

on the one hand, this is an ai horde-based bot. the ai horde is just a bunch of users who are letting you run models on their personal machines, which means this is not “big ai” and doesn’t use up massive amounts of resources. it’s basically the “best” way of running stable diffusion at small to medium scale.

on the other, this is still using “mainstream” models like flux, which has been trained on copyrighted works without consent and used shitloads of energy to train. unfortunately models trained on only freely available data just can’t compete.

lemmy is majority anti-ai, but db0 is a big pro-local-ai hub. i don’t think they’re pro-big-ai. so what we’re getting here is a clash between people who feel like any use of ai is immoral due to the inherent infringement and the energy cost, and people who feel like copyright is a broken system anyway and are trying to tackle the energy thing themselves.

it’s a pretty thorny issue with both sides making valid points, and depending on your background you may very well hold all the viewpoints of both sides at the same time.

well, i have no evidence of this. however. looking at the way auto-generated subtitles are served at youtube right now, they are sent individually word-by-word from the server, pick up filler words like “uh”, and sometimes pause for several seconds in the middle of sentences. and they’re not sent by websocket, which means they go through multiple requests over the course of a video. more requests means the server works harder because it can’t just stream the text like it does the video, and the only reason they’d do that other than incompetence (which would surely have been corrected by now, it’s been like this for years) is if the web backend has to wait for the next word to be generated.

i would love to actually know what’s going on if anyone has any insight.

explain. edited with explanation. i’ve seen the technology connections video, thanks.

my comment is still about the actual post above, and i was specifically thinking about auto-generated subs rather than, say, movies. apparently that’s not obvious.

that’s me. op is the big image up top.

…i feel like you’re having a different conversation than i am.

bin laden. like, they fly away with stuff from bins.

what does that have to do with the OP though?

right now they’re dynamically generating subtitles every time. that’s way more compute.

i mean, it’s a one-time-per-video thing. they already do tons of processing on every upload.

on youtube and twitter?!

context awareness is the entire point of language models tho :(

not for my language. they are hilariously bad.

it’s crazy to me that for all the ai “advances” in the past few years nobody has thought to improve subtitling.

full circle: the screenshot is in swedish

[citation needed]

i can perfectly imitate the “adult voice” from Peanuts with just my mouth.

i am actively looking for one to color-coordinate my bedroom.

can i like get one of these from the state, or