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Subliminal messaging has never convincingly been shown to work outside of specific laboratory conditions.

That said, this made me laugh:

On Twitter—which is now called “X” for some reason

This is the opposite of subliminal. It's almost super-liminal. This people must think that a punch in the face is subtle disagreement.

On Twitter—which is now called “X” for some reason—

Best part of the article right there.

Here's what's really going on

Yeah nothing out of the ordinary

Thanks I guess

"On Twitter—which is now called “X” for some reason—algorithmically-boosted blue-check users..."

Words so mesmerising I turned off my adblock

ControlNet uses the AI image-generating tool Stable Diffusion, and one of its initial uses was generating fancy QR codes using the code as an input image. That idea was then taken further, with some users developing a workflow that lets them specify any image or text as a black-and-white mask that implants itself into the generated image—kind of like an automated, generative version of the masking tool in Photoshop.

“What happened there was that this user discovered that if they used the QR Code ControlNet but instead of feeding it a QR code, they fed it some other black-and-white patterns, they could create nice optical illusions,” said Passos. “You can now send a conditioning image and the model blends in a pattern that satisfies that while still making a coherent image at the same time.”

Which is...just ControlNet?

I read the ‘Gay Sex’ as ‘Day Sex’ 🤔

Didn't Vice go out of business like months ago?

It's fun, I've been making my own!

What's going on is them ruining cats for me. Every time I see one of these pictures I want to puke at how unrealistic the animals look. I found myself to truly despise AI generated content with burning passion.