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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend. (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Im fascinated with the history of image AI as just some algorithms to help clean up noisy photos. Eventually they advanced enough that you just feed it complete noise, tell it what its an image of, and it just "gets rid of the noise"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait is that how image generation works? Denoising a random noise seed?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Yes! It's called "stable diffusion", and it's how you get a unique image everytime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah thats the mechanism its generating with, and why every generation is different in some way. Theres a lot more cool components to the whole process and history tho. Tying language models into image recognition models, and then the image generation algorithm has an arms race with the image recognition, where the image generation is learning by trying to deceive image recognition, and image recognition is trying to distinguish between generated images and real images its also being fed.