Even more ridiculous since a 1.4x performance increase is already incredible news for anyone who makes regular of this.

If someone found a software optimization that improved, say, blender performance by 1.4x people would be shouting praises from the rooftops.

Also, this is tangential to the rest of our conversation, but I appreciate the dedication to the comment chain required to actually set up something with similar composition to the red man image and take a picture of it. Even has some black in the image in roughly the same size and area as his sweater. :D

For what it’s worth I agree that AI images will generally have “tells” that give away their nature. It’s just they aren’t quite so straightforward as being able to check that average values are within a range. It would be nice if it were that easy though.

While I do dabble with AI image generation I’m not a lunatic who calls themself an “artist” for doing so, nor do I think being a “prompt engineer” is any kind of expression of creativity or skill. I think the people who do are completely self-deluded.

Odd. I tag your red at 78%. And for what it’s worth this RGB to HSV converter agrees with that number taking your colour hex as C92D20. I certainly don’t know enough about it to offer an explanation as to why it might be different.

edit: Ah, I think it’s HSV vs HSL, which I’m just now learning are different things. :D

I’m not sure what you mean by the saturation being around 50% across the board. If I peek the HSB of all of the averages only that first teal-ish one appears to be around the mid point for saturation.

I’d expect that many images are going to be somewhere near 50% grey if you average their luminance out overall. That’s just the average of every colour though. The fact that averaging a range of things tends toward a standard distribution isn’t particularly surprising. Again though, it’s not hard to get a diffusion model to generate something outside of that expectation.

Prompt: “night sky”

Image:

Average colour:

Average brightness: 21%

Prompt: “lineless image of an old man drawn in yellow ink on white background”

Image:

Average colour:

Average brightness: 90%

I’m saying it because it’s not only obvious with even a moments thought (you can literally just ask it for an entirely red image or whatever), but also because it’s easily provable.

Prompt: “Under the sea”

Image:

Average pixel colour:

Prompt: “a man with red hair wearing a red coat standing in front of a red background”

Image:

Average pixel colour:

So I ask you the same question. Did you just say that because you felt like it was true?

It is absolutely not true of all AI images. I’d be surprised if it’s even true about most AI images.

That Concord episode of Secret Level is going to be pretty awkward.

It’s not great.

Our production servers are all Linux and we have a fully Linux dev stack. My request for a Linux work machine was denied and we have to work in WSL.

I’m not depressed, at least I don’t think I am. I don’t really feel sad.

Society equating depression with sadness is a great disservice to the condition. It’s quite common for it to present as just … nothing. An emotional void where you might expect emotions to be. Things that would be expected to make you happy just don’t. Things that would make you sad, the same. Your feelings are depressed in the sense that their impact is just muted across the board.

A lack of motivation is also a very common indicator. You’re just missing the drive to do something because the emotional rewards that you expect to happen when you accomplish your goals just aren’t there.

I wouldn’t buy a new Seagate drive, let alone a refurbished one. Every Seagate I’ve ever owned died in less than five years. Every WD I’ve owned lasted until long after their capacity was so far outpaced by newer drives as to be useless.

Anecdotal, yes, but it’s happened enough to me that I’ve been soured on them for life.

KITT is self driving in the same way that people are self walking.

Even if you are confident in your Linux skills this isn’t a bad idea. I’ve seen too many OS installers put things on drives other than the one you choose to risk it at this point.

YouTube shorts as well. I long ago stopped bothering to look at any of them after the 666th one that was like “this incredible unknown fact about (insert franchise)” that is invariably someone basically pissing themselves in excitement reiterating a main story beat as if it was some kind of hidden secret.

Durkey Tinner

Leet Moaf

Chotato Pip

Rizza Poll

At this point you either haven’t read the text, or are simply a troll.

The school is not congress and its rules are not laws. I’m not sure how you think the first amendment applies.

You linked then to the already linked video they were complaining about.