You do realize that computers and the internet were invented and developed by the government, right?

Capitalism, kind of. Practicality, the rest of the way. Mobile parts need to be designed really tightly integrated, because they need to fix exactly into such small spaces, and standardizing them isn’t really feasible without significant pressure on the market (aka, socialism).

The reason desktop PCs can be so standardized is how big they are. Tons of room for customized parts.

Me and the millions of other people who own electric cars. What value have you added to this conversation? Do you even own an electric car? It sounds like you’re not talking from experience.

If they have electricity, you can charge there. Portable chargers are a thing.

But, I wasn’t talking about a charging station in their house. I’d assume they also don’t have a gas station in their house. I’m talking about a public fast charging station. Something like Electrify America, ChargePoint, or Tesla Supercharger.

That’s not what I said at all.

Charging stations are pretty plentiful. Basically if there’s a gas station, there’s probably also a charging station nearby.

Downsides are you can’t drive as far, usually, before needing to fill up, and quick charge takes about 25 minutes, instead of the usual 5 for gas.

Upside is that only matters on road trips. If you have an outlet at home, like we do, your car is just always charged.

Glad to help. You should post your costume on here when you’re done. It sounds really funny. :)

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Why would they arrest their fellow officers?

You want a light that’s a light? Ridiculous.

I think it’s good that you don’t remember me. I always obey the rules of good grammar.

But do you recognize me!?

You might be able to copy one stroke of a pen exactly, but the thousands or tens of thousands of strokes it takes to paint a painting? Like, yeah, you can copy a painting “close enough”, but it’s not exactly the same, because paint isn’t deterministic.

As far as making a “close enough” copy that isn’t exactly the same with AI, you can just use any image as the input image and set the denoising strength to like .1. Then you’ll get basically the same image but it’ll have a different checksum. So if you wanna steal art, AI makes it way easier.

There’s not really any human creativity in this process, or even using your own prompts, which is the whole point behind the copyright office denying this guy’s copyright claim. Maybe you could copyright your prompt, if it’s detailed enough.

In the context that I’m explaining that the thing is deterministic. Do you disagree? Because that was my point. Diffusion models are deterministic.

If you didn’t understand that I clearly meant with the same model and seed from the context of talking about it being deterministic, that’s a you problem.

Ok, here’s an image I generated with a random seed:

Here’s the UI showing it as a result:

Then I reused the exact same input parameters. Here you can see it in the middle of generating the image:

Then it finished, and you can see it generated the exact same image:

Here’s the second image, so you can see for yourself compared to the first:

You can download Flux Dev, the model I used for this image, and input the exact same parameters yourself, and you’ll get the same image.

It’s literally as true as it can possibly be. Given the same inputs (including the same seed), a diffusion model will produce exactly the same output every time. It’s deterministic in the most fundamental meaning of the word. That’s why when you share an image on CivitAI people like it when you share your input parameters, so they can duplicate the image. I have recreated the exact same images using models from there.

Humans are not deterministic (at least as far as we know). If I give two people exactly the same prompt, and exactly the same “training data” (show them the same references, I guess), they will never produce the same output. Even if I give the same person the same prompt, they won’t be able to reproduce the same image again.

My email service, Port87, uses boolean operators in its search language. Polish notation, even!

And the library that does it is open source:

https://nymph.io/packages/query-parser/

It’s deterministic. I can exactly duplicate your “art” by typing in the same sentence. You’re not creative, you’re just playing with toys.

If Cybertruck weren’t a thing, I might believe you.