For those not in the know, it's like DALLE-2, but you can run it locally without the filters.

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32444470

DALL-E 2, OpenAI's powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial limitation: a filter that prevents it from creating images depicting public figures and content deemed too toxic.

Now an open source alternative to DALL-E 2 is on the cusp of being released, and it'll have no such filter.

London- and Los Altos-based startup Stability AI this week announced the release of a DALL-E 2-like system, Stable Diffusion, to just over a thousand researchers ahead of a public launch in the coming weeks. A collaboration between Stability AI, media creation company RunwayML, Heidelberg University researchers and the research groups EleutherAI and LAION, Stable Diffusion is designed to run on most high-end consumer hardware, generating 512×512-pixel images in just a few seconds given any text prompt.

"Stable Diffusion will allow both researchers and soon the public to run this under a range of conditions, democratizing image generation," Stability AI CEO and founder Emad Mostaque wrote in a blog post. "We look forward to the open ecosystem that will emerge around this and further models to truly explore the boundaries of latent space."

But Stable Diffusion's lack of safeguards compared to systems like DALL-E 2 poses tricky ethical questions for the AI community. Even if the results aren't perfectly convincing yet, making fake images of public figures opens a large can of worms. And making the raw components of the system freely available leaves the door open to bad actors who could train them on subjectively inappropriate content, like pornography and graphic violence.

Creating Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is the brainchild of Mostaque. Having graduated from Oxford with a Masters in mathematics and computer science, Mostaque served as an analyst at various hedge funds before shifting gears to more public-facing works. In 2019, he co-founded Symmitree, a project that aimed to reduce the cost of smartphones and internet access for people living in impoverished communities. And in 2020, Mostaque was the chief architect of Collective & Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19, an alliance to help policymakers make decisions in the face of the pandemic by leveraging software.

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Basics

Firstly, the basics. bbbb uses GPT-3 in the zero-shot mode. What that means is that there are no examples given. Yes, really! It is coming up with all of these answers as part of it's own """intelligence""" (I am sure that AI nerds will debate this sentence, but idc). You can actually try this out, by going to [OpenAI's API page](https:// https://beta.openai.com/overview). It does kind of , but it does work.

Anyways, when bbbb replies to a comment, it takes the text of the comment, normalizes it, and puts it into this prompt

Write an abrasive reply to this comment: "<comment>"

...that's it. I don't give it any context or anything. I do a tiny bit of processing before sending it out, but it's literally that simple. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: this is the low end of what bbbb is capable of. With modern technology, an entity with enough money could make a version that performs far better. Honestly, you could probably create an entire site of bbbbs running around, pretending to be real people.

The reason I don't feed in context is because OpenAI are a bunch of jews and charge a really high rate for token processing. Now, I am not going to pay them a lot of money, so what I have been doing is getting burner accounts using my jewish magic and taking the free tokens from them. However, this is kind of a chore, and I don't want to do it every day lol. So far, I am on my fourth burner account lmao (thanks to @everyone and @crgd for help bros)

Q and A

Q. Could you do this for reddit?

Probably, but there are a lot of variables to account for. Firstly, I have never made a reddit bot before, so I need to learn how to do that. Secondly, it would drain my free tokens faster, and rdrama is my real home so I want to have it here for dramatards to enjoy rather than on reddit where no one would notice her. Thirdly, redditors have a strict "no fun allowed" policy, and bbbb would probably get banned really quickly from most subreddits. Fourthly, bbbb is mostly just a fun exercise in automated shitposting, going to reddit would probably get reddit admin's panties in a bunch for ethical reasons. OpenAI would probably get involved and shut down everything

The long and short of it is, I could, but I don't want to. Someone else do it.

Q. Really? Every comment?

Yes, every comment was made by bbbb. Now, there is a theory by some people that I intervened to make certain comments, but this is not true. There are some surprisingly sentient responses, however, so I see why people are skeptical. So, to that end, I will share bbbb's complete log. You see, ever since bbbb began a month ago, I have kept a running log. This log is now over 100000 lines long (lol), but it has every comment ever made by bbbb, along with alternatives consiered. See it here

Q. How does it do marsies?

Okay, i kind of cheated here. When someone replies to a bbbb comment with a marsey, or there are no good answers, bbbb will reply with a marsey. The marseys it can reply with are: , , , , , , , , , , and . It will choose one of those randomly.

Q. Who was the first person to realize bbbb was a bot?

Well, I'm sure there are many people who say they thought bbbb was a bot. Officially, the first person to propose that bbbb was a bot was @chiobu. However, the first person to really break the case wide open was @HaloFan2002, leading to the hilarious thread where @AHHHHHHHHH posted a captcha, and @bbbb told him to kill himself

Q. Doesn't this break the GPT-3 code of conduct?

Q. Does Aevann know about this?

Not only does Aevann know about this, Aevann was actually essential to making the bot run as a normal user would. Carp was also aware, as well as most of the janitorial staff.

Q. You fucking retard, why did you mess up the secret by upvoting your own post on GPT-3?

Okay, in my defense, when I created BBBB I didn't mean for her to be a secret! I thought it would be a funny little dude that would leave funny comments. So, I upvoted my GPT-3 post as an easter egg.

Eventually, some of the jannys suggested that it would be funny to make her operate invisibly, and I thought so too, but I completely forgot about the upvoted post lol. So yes I am a tard, but only like half a tard.

Q. Can I see the code?

Well, I'm not sure. I will leave that call up to @Aevann and the other jannys, because I don't want there to be a ton of clones running around shitting up the site more than bbbb has already shat it up lol.

Q. Why does it have a normal posting distribution?

I did this in code. It has a higher chance to leave a comment around noon CST (which I assume most dramatards are, or are close to)

I’am familiar with a lot of concepts and have done a small amount of intro level shit, but how would I go about actually learning applicable/hobby level coding without taking classes?

Edit: I have decided to learn assembly

They are prohibited by law from adding functionality to download DRM protected content

And that's not the scope of the software. The scope of the software is to make it easier and faster to download shit from the web, not to specifically download shit protected by Widevine. If you assumed that JD2 is a piracy program you're a fricking r-slur. Plus, it's pretty clear that JD devs would absolutely love to add such functionality to their software, but because they are from a country with draconian laws they cannot do so, and to move to a freer country just to appease a few users that want to download shit from a few websites with DRM is just stupid.

JDownloader2 is great for many other things, including downloading pirated content. For example, you know those shitty download sites with multiple fake download buttons, waiting times and other bullshit like that? JDownloader2 is there so that you paste in a link, it figures out the right download link for you, and if there is a captcha, it'll automatically click it for you so it's as painless as possible.

One complaint I have is that in the recent years all those sites are getting protected by Matthew Princess and JD2 still hasn't figured out how to bypass Cuckflare's cockblock with shared browser cookies or something like that, so a lot of sites no longer really work in JD2.

However, another fantastic use for JD2 is the ability to add accounts and to do inline downloading. You can add a Google account and do 20 simultaneous inline downloads of a file from Google Drive that needs an account to download.

Or, and this is my favorite function, you know how Internet Archive is a safe haven for software piracy because of their DMCA exemption? And how their download speeds are painfully slow? And how their torrents are useless as they never contain all the files and no one ever uses them? And how some collections require you to have an account and direct download anyway?

With JDownloader2 it's actually feasible to grab shit from there by direct download, because you can add your IA account to JD2 to access those login only collections, and then you can start an inline download, so if normally you have that horrendous download speed of 700Kbps, now you have that, but multiplied by 20 times, so you can hit 14Mbps download speeds. Now it takes a few minutes to download a multi-gigabyte ISO instead of a few hours, because you're simultaneously downloading it 20 times. You could try and bop this up even further with advanced options, but JD2 limits it to 20 by default to not overly stress various servers when people use the software out of the box.

There are also other useful functions of JD2, like scanning links so you can grab all the images from a website with a gallery to easily batch download those, or the aforementioned YouTube downloader that's a good way to download and archive YouTube videos if you're a BIPOC, fear the command line and therefore cannot use yt-dlp like a white man, or you're just lazy. But JDownloader2 is not all-encompassing, and yeah, for different sites you'll want different tools, maybe even purpose written.

That is not to say that JDownloader2 is shit and gay because jewish chads and g*rmans and hurr durr they do not appease to my neurodivergent standards. It's irreplaceable for many things, but there are also many things that other software does better or simply do something that cannot be done in JD2. I still use it for inline downloading large files because I don't know other downloaders that let me do so and use site credentials to bypass login restrictions.

A study found that anti-piracy messages work on women but actually make men MORE likely to pirate (because dudes rock ).

One brave slashdotter has to remind everyone that this is because women get punished for rebelling ( )

Meanwhile the rest of the comments have entirely too many people fully admitting that they don't pirate because they "have too much to lose" and apparently don't know what a fricking VPN is, which is a truly darning indictment of what used to be one of the best tech-literate forums on the interwebs.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11763/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-ii-vegetables

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11879/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-iii-fruits

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1398/lost-crops-of-the-incas-little-known-plants-of-the

Pretty based set of ebooks on native crops in these regions that have a lot of potential.

Can't believe PEEPEE OUT didn't make it. RIP Harambe, you were too good for this world.

i thought this already but now its real

also !codecels come laugh and point

https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981

slack my nuts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095

It was well understood that this is what was happening when Kiwis were continually banished off host after host, but didn't have any way he could prove it until now. He's pondered legal action against in the past so here's hoping for a court case sneed.

"Katherine L. and I invited Nitasha Tiku to see the work that our multi-disciplinary, all-volunteer team has been doing over the past year as Kiwi Farms was de-platformed from over 32 providers located in 22 countries that found it in violation of their Acceptable Use Policies. By our count, we set in motion more than 24 of those terminations with our abuse reports and our professional follow-ups to ensure that they were actioned. Because of needing to repeatedly find and change to new providers, the site achieved approximately 50-60% reliability as observed from US consumer ISPs over the past year, as opposed to the 99.5% or higher reliability a typical law-abiding website with competent administration will offer.

Thousands of hours of thankless work went into taking this single site offline; even then, hopping to a new "shithost" provider takes merely hours of work, and then following up to show the new provider is in cahoots with the abuse and unresponsive to complaints can take dozens or hundreds of hours and weeks to months of wall time. This is not repeatable, nor should it _have_ to ever be repeated. There is no slippery slope here, least of all because the vast majority of sites on the Internet comply with their upstream AUPs.

Even when there is blatant breaking of both private contracts and the law, if it takes hundreds to thousands of hours of volunteer to time to get it actioned, there is no real enforcement accessible to the average victim. And governments _already_ can skip all of this and raid or order sites offline if they so choose. While I hope that one day there will be criminal consequences for those who perpetuate harassment online, I'm not holding my breath waiting for the government. Not to mention, which government? Companies in 22 countries were involved in this international takedown effort.

I'm protecting myself, and future generations of transgender and neurodivergent people. Don't just be a bystander, take action if you see injustice (and clear breaches of contract!). A huge huge huge thank you to everyone on our volunteer team, and everyone in the tech community who listened to us.

Katherine L. and I are going to be taking a break from this work for a while, as it's extremely burnout inducing. "Clay" is well positioned to continue this work, and further blackmail or intimidation against me is not going to deter Kat, me, Clay, or the rest of our teams from finishing the job."

https://archive.ph/xbhN5 ( LinkedIn Post)

He announced this his Telegram as well:

orangesite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37267597

nobody there yet but will be because PG tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1695197772448686507

After a thread was made in [email protected] asking to defederate from lemmy.dbzer0.com for "the facilitation of piracy, and copyright infringement in general which is illegal", the admins of lemmy.world deleted it prompting discussions on asklemmy and piracy.

fedilore ( Lemmy SRD) discusses

https://lemmy.world/post/3191819?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/3191839?scrollToComments=true

Edit: More seething lemmings

HUGE UPDATE: AN INSIDER SOURCE WHO MODERATES LEAKED.CX HAS CONFIRMED TO ME THAT HE BELIEVES THIS IS LEGITIMATE

Context

MusicMafia was a group of leakers active several years ago that arguably first brought the sale of leaked music in the general public. Through their website, http://musicmafia.to, and later a private domain, they sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of leaked music. This blatant infringement on copyright and computer hacking laws even brought them minor media attention.

Other escapades included hacking the twitters of many notable "artists," such as drake:

The value of these songs/files to collectors that MusicMafia possesses cannot be understated. One track in particular, the most notable track known as "Can U Be" by Kanye West, is valued at upwards of 40k. MusicMafia is, almost certainly, in possession of entire unreleased albums and discographies that could fetch over a hundred thousand dollars to the right people.

Unfortunately, the way that these leaked songs are acquired was/is some combination of social engineering, sim swapping, fraud, and credential stuffing, all of which are illegal and of great interest to the FBI, RIAA, and various other copyright enforcement bureaus . Recently, a teenage hacker that used the alias "Spirdark" actually got prison time for doing this in the UK https://www.xxlmag.com/hacker-lil-uzi-vert-sentenced-prison/. As such, leakers tend to want to protect their identities, not only from each other due to harassment, but due to the omnipresent threat of legal action. MusicMafia, the group which probably perpetrated some of the largest music leaks in recent memory, would want to protect this, but their identities have been kept secret thus far.

What is known about the "identity" or alias of MusicMafia, publicly at this time, is that they were a group of leakers in 2017, with the website http://musicmafia.to. After this website was shut down by the domain provider, they moved to a private, password protected site to transact business. Sometime around 2018 this website, and the "MusicMafia" alias, were both abandoned. In their place rose a new alias, "PRIVATEFRIEND" aka "PRIVATE" and afterwards "Germans." Whether privatefriend and germans are the entirety of the MusicMafia team, one remnant member, or somewhere in between isn't for me to say. However, what is known is that these aliases stemming from MusicMafia administered the site "http://leakth.is" which shut down in 2021, but until then was the central hub for music leaks and sales. It was also an open secret that, on this website, many sellers were basically PRIVATEFRIEND using different aliases.

What happened today

You might recall the website http://leaked.cx from my previous post regarding someone who used AI to fake frank ocean tracks and scammed collectors out of 15k (check my profile). Well, after http://leakth.is was shut down in 2021, this website took its place, and is now the new hub for music leaking online.

Today at 7AM, someone by the name "MusicMafia2023" made a post to http://leaked.cx advertising the website http://musicmafia.info, and threatening the MusicMafia team with a doxx unless they responded to their email. Furthermore, this user says he will update the .info website with more and more information every 24 hours. You might recall that MusicMafia stopped being a thing in late 2017-early 2018, this is true, but like I said the user/users behind it are probably still active. The post can be found here (https://leaked.cx/threads/music-mafia-return.119939/). Currently, the user MusicMafia2023 who is threatening this doxx is actually active in the thread.

This was written off as an r-slured prank/someone bullpooping by pretty much everyone, including me. That is because the website pretty much only contained public information that I've relayed to you just now, and didn't have any details besides vague "[redacted]" marks. That is, until around one hour ago, when MusicMafia2023 updated his website with this information:

If you can't read between the lines here, MusicMafia2023 has allegedly linked a public Spotify account (under a real person's name) to music leaks that MusicMafia sold years after it was added to their playlists. If legitimate, this screenshot alone is pretty much 80% of the way towards a full doxx.

What is at stake

I already mentioned how valuable the "vault" of unreleased songs is in MusicMafia's (or the former members of) possession - think 150k, minimum. The stakes of this should also be clear - if they get doxxed, this would immediately be of great interest to every record label and copyright enforcement agency in the western hemisphere.

Is MusicMafia2023 legit? Is he bullpooping? What does he want?

As this saga continues, I will update this thread. But keep in mind, this might be an elaborate troll and I have fallen for the bait like an r-slur.

UPDATE 1: I believe this to be a legitimate doxx and so do many other longtime leakers

UPDATE 2: The doxxer is currently arguing on coded language with a leaker he alleges to be involved with MusicMafia on that public forum page lmao

Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.

When Google released its stand-alone Photos app in May 2015, people were wowed by what it could do: analyze images to label the people, places and things in them, an astounding consumer offering at the time. But a couple of months after the release, a software developer, Jacky Alciné, discovered that Google had labeled photos of him and a friend, who are both Black, as “gorillas,” a term that is particularly offensive because it echoes centuries of racist tropes.

In the ensuing controversy, Google prevented its software from categorizing anything in Photos as gorillas, and it vowed to fix the problem. Eight years later, with significant advances in artificial intelligence, we tested whether Google had resolved the issue, and we looked at comparable tools from its competitors: Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.

Photo apps made by Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft rely on artificial intelligence to allow us to search for particular items, and pinpoint specific memories, in our increasingly large photo collections. Want to find your day at the zoo out of 8,000 images? Ask the app. So to test the search function, we curated 44 images featuring people, animals and everyday objects.

We started with Google Photos. When we searched our collection for cats and kangaroos, we got images that matched our queries. The app performed well in recognizing most other animals.

But when we looked for gorillas, Google Photos failed to find any images. We widened our search to baboons, chimpanzees, orangutans and monkeys, and it still failed even though there were images of all of these primates in our collection.

We then looked at Google’s competitors. We discovered Apple Photos had the same issue: It could accurately find photos of particular animals, except for most primates. We did get results for gorilla, but only when the text appeared in a photo, such as an image of Gorilla Tape.

The photo search in Microsoft OneDrive drew a blank for every animal we tried. Amazon Photos showed results for all searches, but it was over-inclusive. When we searched for gorillas, the app showed a menagerie of primates, and repeated that pattern for other animals.

There was one member of the primate family that Google and Apple were able to recognize --- lemurs, the permanently startled-looking, long-tailed animals that share opposable thumbs with humans, but are more distantly related than are apes.

Google's and Apple's tools were clearly the most sophisticated when it came to image analysis.

Yet Google, whose Android software underpins most of the world's smartphones, has made the decision to turn off the ability to visually search for primates for fear of making an offensive mistake and labeling a person as an animal. And Apple, with technology that performed similarly to Google's in our test, appeared to disable the ability to look for monkeys and apes as well.

Consumers may not need to frequently perform such a search --- though in 2019, an iPhone user complained on Apple's customer support forum that the software "can't find monkeys in photos on my device." But the issue raises larger questions about other unfixed, or unfixable, flaws lurking in services that rely on computer vision --- a technology that interprets visual images --- as well as other products powered by A.I.

Mr. Alciné was dismayed to learn that Google has still not fully solved the problem and said society puts too much trust in technology.

"I'm going to forever have no faith in this A.I.," he said.

Computer vision products are now used for tasks as mundane as sending an alert when there is a package on the doorstep, and as weighty as navigating cars and finding perpetrators in law enforcement investigations.

Errors can reflect racist attitudes among those encoding the data. In the gorilla incident, two former Google employees who worked on this technology said the problem was that the company had not put enough photos of Black people in the image collection that it used to train its A.I. system. As a result, the technology was not familiar enough with darker-skinned people and confused them for gorillas.

As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in our lives, it is eliciting fears of unintended consequences. Although computer vision products and A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT are different, both depend on underlying reams of data that train the software, and both can misfire because of flaws in the data or biases incorporated into their code.

Microsoft recently limited users' ability to interact with a chatbot built into its search engine, Bing, after it instigated inappropriate conversations.

Microsoft's decision, like Google's choice to prevent its algorithm from identifying gorillas altogether, illustrates a common industry approach --- to wall off technology features that malfunction rather than fixing them.

"Solving these issues is important," said Vicente Ordóñez, a professor at Rice University who studies computer vision. "How can we trust this software for other scenarios?"

Michael Marconi, a Google spokesman, said Google had prevented its photo app from labeling anything as a monkey or ape because it decided the benefit "does not outweigh the risk of harm."

Apple declined to comment on users' inability to search for most primates on its app.

Representatives from Amazon and Microsoft said the companies were always seeking to improve their products.

Bad Vision

When Google was developing its photo app, which was released eight years ago, it collected a large amount of images to train the A.I. system to identify people, animals and objects.

Its significant oversight --- that there were not enough photos of Black people in its training data --- caused the app to later malfunction, two former Google employees said. The company failed to uncover the "gorilla" problem back then because it had not asked enough employees to test the feature before its public debut, the former employees said.

Google profusely apologized for the gorillas incident, but it was one of a number of episodes in the wider tech industry that have led to accusations of bias.

Other products that have been criticized include HP's facial-tracking webcams, which could not detect some people with dark skin, and the Apple Watch, which, according to a lawsuit, failed to accurately read blood oxygen levels across skin colors. The lapses suggested that tech products were not being designed for people with darker skin. (Apple pointed to a paper from 2022 that detailed its efforts to test its blood oxygen app on a "wide range of skin types and tones.")

Years after the Google Photos error, the company encountered a similar problem with its Nest home-security camera during internal testing, according to a person familiar with the incident who worked at Google at the time. The Nest camera, which used A.I. to determine whether someone on a property was familiar or unfamiliar, mistook some Black people for animals. Google rushed to fix the problem before users had access to the product, the person said.

However, Nest customers continue to complain on the company's forums about other flaws. In 2021, a customer received alerts that his mother was ringing the doorbell but found his mother-in-law instead on the other side of the door. When users complained that the system was mixing up faces they had marked as "familiar," a customer support representative in the forum advised them to delete all of their labels and start over.

Mr. Marconi, the Google spokesman, said that "our goal is to prevent these types of mistakes from ever happening." He added that the company had improved its technology "by partnering with experts and diversifying our image datasets."

In 2019, Google tried to improve a facial-recognition feature for Android smartphones by increasing the number of people with dark skin in its data set. But the contractors whom Google had hired to collect facial scans reportedly resorted to a troubling tactic to compensate for that dearth of diverse data: They targeted homeless people and students. Google executives called the incident "very disturbing" at the time.

The Fix?

While Google worked behind the scenes to improve the technology, it never allowed users to judge those efforts.

Margaret Mitchell, a researcher and co-founder of Google's Ethical AI group, joined the company after the gorilla incident and collaborated with the Photos team. She said in a recent interview that she was a proponent of Google's decision to remove "the gorillas label, at least for a while."

"You have to think about how often someone needs to label a gorilla versus perpetuating harmful stereotypes," Dr. Mitchell said. "The benefits don't outweigh the potential harms of doing it wrong."

Dr. Ordóñez, the professor, speculated that Google and Apple could now be capable of distinguishing primates from humans, but that they didn't want to enable the feature given the possible reputational risk if it misfired again.

Google has since released a more powerful image analysis product, Google Lens, a tool to search the web with photos rather than text. Wired discovered in 2018 that the tool was also unable to identify a gorilla.

But when we showed it a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a baboon, and an orangutan, Lens seemed to be stumped, refusing to label what was in the image and surfacing only “visual matches” — photos it deemed similar to the original picture.

For gorillas, it showed photos of other gorillas, suggesting that the technology recognizes the animal but that the company is afraid of labeling it.

These systems are never foolproof, said Dr. Mitchell, who is no longer working at Google. Because billions of people use Google’s services, even rare glitches that happen to only one person out of a billion users will surface.

“It only takes one mistake to have massive social ramifications,” she said, referring to it as “the poisoned needle in a haystack.”

2tb compressed

Pushshift removed the download links on website but I found a torrent with the needful data

@gaslighter !soren !reportmaxxers !schizomaxxxers !codecels discuss

The site keeps going down because they have a music generator and the guys working on it are just doing it for fun and they weren't ready for for the news to spread yet

This has some cool samples you can play and explains how it works:

https://www.riffusion.com/about

Here's people talking about how bad and compressed it sounds and why, but there are also people amazed at how good it sounds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34001908

Edit:

Can I run it locally?

https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-app

https://huggingface.co/riffusion/riffusion-model-v1/tree/main

The model is 15GB

Here's one of the authors talking about it on orange site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999162

Other author here! This got a posted a little earlier than we intended so we didn't have our GPUs scaled up yet. Please hang on and try throughout the day!

Meanwhile, please read our about page http://riffusion.com/about

It’s all open source and the code lives at https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-app --> if you have a GPU you can run it yourself

This has been our hobby project for the past few months. Seeing the incredible results of stable diffusion, we were curious if we could fine tune the model to output spectrograms and then convert to audio clips. The answer to that was a resounding yes, and we became addicted to generating music from text prompts. There are existing works for generating audio or MIDI from text, but none as simple or general as fine tuning the image-based model. Taking it a step further, we made an interactive experience for generating looping audio from text prompts in real time. To do this we built a web app where you type in prompts like a jukebox, and audio clips are generated on the fly. To make the audio loop and transition smoothly, we implemented a pipeline that does img2img conditioning combined with latent space interpolation.

>if you have a GPU you can run it yourself

HN

In a debate with the ACLU’s David Cole, the former director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael Hayden said, “we kill people based on metadata.”

“We kill people based on metadata”

2014: David Cole, the National Legal Director of the ACLU, participated in a debate with General Michael Hayden, the former Director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, about the appropriate balance between personal privacy and national security. Hayden, an excellent example of the connection between the national security establishment and mainstream media, is now a national security analyst for CNN.

Cole and General Hayden discussed metadata, among other things. Cole brought up the NSA’s surveillance dragnets that either violated the law or used a secret interpretation of the law. He talked about how these spy agencies can know everything about a person through metadata alone. In response, Hayden said, “[that] description… is absolutely correct. We kill people based on metadata.”

Debate: https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI or http://u2cvlit75owumwpy4dj2hsmvkq7nvrclkpht7xgyye2pyoxhpmclkrad.onion/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI or youtube[dot]com/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI

I do not believe there exist any methods through which one can entirely avoid these behemoth agencies’ data collection techniques. However, there are some valuable tools for dealing with metadata at an elementary level. I have listed some of these tools below.

Software solutions

Pdfparanoia

“pdfparanoia is a PDF watermark removal library for academic papers. Some publishers include private information like institution names, personal names, ip addresses, timestamps and other identifying information in watermarks on each page.”

https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia

PDF Redact Tool

“PDF Redact Tools helps with securely redacting and stripping metadata from documents before publishing.”

No longer maintained

https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools

Dangerzone

“Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.”

https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone

https://dangerzone.rocks/#downloads

mat2

“mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3: at its core, it’s a library, used by an eponymous command-line interface, as well as several file manager extensions.”

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2

ExifTool

“ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, Lyrics3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.”

https://exiftool.org/

Scrambled Exif (Android)

“Scrambled Exif (pronounced eggsif) helps you remove the metadata in your pictures before you share them. […] To remove the metadata from a picture, simply share it like you’d normally do and choose Scrambled Exif. A moment later, the share ‘dialog’ will reappear. Now just share with the app you intended to share with in the first place.”

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif/

Imagepipe (Android)

“This app reduces image size by changing the resolution and quality of the image. It also removes exif data before sending the image. The modified image is saved in a separate folder in jpeg format. The original image remains unchanged. Imagepipe will receive a send intent for images, modify the image and send the changed image onward. Therefore, it takes you only one touch to pipe the image before sending”

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe/

A Photo Manager (Android)

“Manage local photos: Find/Copy/Edit-Exif and show in Gallery or Map. Useful for visualizing photo exif data.”

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.k3b.android.androFotoFinder/

How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat

Freedesktop/RedHat's CoC team is worse than you thought

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat2

Strags respond

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

• Cognition Labs unveiled a new AI coding tool called Devin

• Devin can take project requirements, look up documentation/Jeetcode, and try many different solutions in seconds

• Currently, it's able to solve simple Jeetcode problems 13% of the time

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. https://t.co/7j2JN27M3W

Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy… pic.twitter.com/ruTEWn87vf

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 15, 2024

Lots of seethe on Twitter. Discuss the societal implications, and what degenerate thing you're going to make when stable diffusion released their copy in a year!

Also, what will it take for Yann LeCum to admit he is wrong? We'll have AIs that simulate the future and he will still be arguing they aren't intelligent and his model (which is essentially the same thing) is better

FULL COMMENTS - Why is Linux not bigger in leftist spaces?

The shit just ain't casual friendly. It's for nerds and coders and devs.

I have to disagree, windows out of all three seems like the most odd to use

I mean in a perfect world if I could snap my fingers and have everyone intuitively understand Linux sure. But we don't live in that world...Plus games run like shit on it cause they aren't optimized also Linux has terrible drivers for gaming. A lot of these issues would be solved if more people used it but that's the problem isn't it.

games absolutely do not run like shit on linux

it really isn't, things like point and click on icons are universal, but folder structure in windows is a NIGHTMARE compared to linux and even MacOS.

Look I'm not anti Linux at all. I just get why it's not popular. The fact that it's only now in 2024 becoming what even resembles viable as a gaming machine means it lost the relevancy war literal decades ago. You're not going to get people to change now I'm sorry.

This is like somebody who specializes in studying Latin insisting it's super easy to learn and people a should learn it

It's literally not at all. This pre-concieved notion that ALL OF LINUX is a specialist thing is weird.

“This is the year of the Linux desktop!” was a meme back when I was in high school which is becoming depressingly far away lmao.

We argue relentlessly against conservative talking points who reject better and more sustainable solutions in favor of keeping things familiar, but when it comes to tech, that's fine?

Mate, it's an operating system. Equating UX familiarity for an OS to the systemic issues caused by conservatives is just…wild. Like, this is so far down on the list of priorities dude.

Data privacy and cyber security is not low on the list. As we speak red states are subpaneling tech companies to use their data to monitor trans folk and pregnant people to enforce these ridiculous policies. The metric fricktons of damage Microsoft and apple have done to not just the digital landscape, but the actual landscape. When Windows PC or Apple Products crash people chuck the computer and buy a new one, the carbon footprint of making electronics is insane, not to mention the labor exploitation? Reducing these things to "just an OS" is just really ignorant.

I'd understand people saying they're just too inundated with windows and apple to make a switch, but actively blaming linux devs and hand waving them as irrelevant seems in poor taste.

I'm not blaming anyone. I'm laying out the reality of the situation. If you want people to up end how they operate and literally have to learn a new system you're going to have to provide them with a good reason. A problem needs to be solved in the process. And Linux only presents new and more numerous problems for people to solve.

Better security, breaking reliance on tech giants from your hardware, privacy, etc. Sure these should be solved with legislation, but why keep poisoning just because it isn't illegal? Cutting down on carbon emissions and e-waste, reuse possibilities are pivotal in climate and environmental issues...W/e you win all hail big tech I guess.

Many of us grew up with windows/macos machines so we're much more intuitively aware of how to use them, so that's much more important for your average user (let alone leftist ones)

This is kind of my point as well. Double clicking an icon is universal (shockingly even in linux), you can have desktop and task bar icons, I'm not sure what exactly is more complicated?

My guy, my dude us normal people can't even operate a printer properly.

Understanding social and political nuances that have hundreds if not thousands of years of world history and context behind as well as working through socially ingrained biases and programming to come to ethical, tolerant and compassionate political views seems WAY harder than loading up Firefox in Ubuntu.

Maybe for you, most people literally shut down when they run into problems with machines. Its why the morons at the Best Buy genius bar still get business despite their utter incompetence.

sure, but if someone decided to be a conservative or a liberal because politics is too complicated to understand and they want easy answers and world views, we wouldn't say that's okay. Allowing capitalist institutions to literally have a stranglehold over our personal lives with our tech choices when there exists viable alternatives seems dumb.

But that's literally what US politics is, people do not understand nuance and are primarily reactionary or single issue voters.

You could make that point about literally everything in the world. There's a reason we form societies and have specialisms. Where do you draw the line? Politics is the exception as it's something we should ALL be well versed in as a base line due to the danger an ill informed voter bloc can pose, but we can't be well versed in absolutely everything in the world.

Most people who use windows aren't well versed in computers. Same with linux. The only reason I'm seeing boils down to "everyone else is doing it so even trying something else is dumb, im very smart"

Well no shit, it's the OS that comes pre-installed and set-up on pretty much every single non-Mac PC. How many people do you think actually set-up and install everything on their PC's?...Windows (or Apple depending on your field) is beaten into you from day one when working with a PC, and it's what you'll be using for your entire work life. To insist that "real leftists" should be learning how to use Linux in addition to this because Microsoft/Apple bad (which I agree with btw) is just utterly and completely unrealistic.

So is the patriarchy, toxic masculinity, conservatism in general, yet its easier to break away from that? You can Eye-roll and say "its just an OS" all you want but it doesn't change the fact that MS and Apple are destroying the environment and promoting e-waste and worker exploitation to meet a demand.

Did I say those things were easier to deal with? And can you frick off with comparing Operating systems to ideologies that want people like me dead. It's frankly offensive and disgusting.

The linux community has made it easier than ever to jump into and use beginner friendly distros out of the box. But to even suggest people look into it, get all these visceral reactions as if linux is the big bad evil source of everything wrong in the world.

No one is reacting like Linux is evil. This has been explained to you time and time again but you seem to just want to feel superior so frankly you can frick off.

Where do i come off seeming like that? By answering people's questions and concerns or pointing out false perceptions where I see them? You morally policing me comes across as wanting to feel superior. Sure I don't respond well to people being condescending or reactionary towards me but according to you not one person has bee condescending, rude, or stating false pretenses and the only one who's done wrong is me. Like will you even admit that you're being condescending, hand waving, or rude?

My guy, you're constantly deriding this community as "passive consumers" and acting as though they're bad leftists for not wanting to use Linux. You're coming across as a massive butthole which is why people are being rude in response.

I don't need to engage with bad faith assumptions and attacks to get my point across. if they don't want to listen or reconsider, that's on them .

You really can't fathom why people are being rude to you, huh?

The average person doesn't wanna mess around with computers. They just want it to work.

That's what I don't understand. Linux, just works. Unless you're doing more than a normal person would do, you're not running into issues. Turn on computer click internet browser. What wizardry are people imagining linux is like?

With this comment I'm almost certain you've never played around with any of the distros.

Literally on reddit on popOs lol.

Yeah...yeah you are. Why are you here and not using something open, like kbin or mastodon? Disappointing to see you passively consuming social media.

I've never said people shouldn't use windows or non open source software. And I'm actively using reddit by having a discussion about the very topic we're discussing. Passively using it would be scrolling and joining in dogpiles for entertainment.

Not everyone is capable of using Linux. Alot of leftists aren't that tech literate

Windows is more complicated. Being used to something doesn't mean it's more intuitive.

If something becomes widespread enough it kind of does, at least it has the same effect

That's a capitalist idea that the "best product is the one that sells the best". Microsoft has so many contracts and buy outs that positions itself as the primary desktop OS in businesses and schools. Ofc teaching it to young people indoctrinates them into being used to it.

Look you asked why people aren't willing to use Linux. People are explaining it to you. Windows has become the default and iOS is the alternative.

Conservatism and capitalism are the default world views, but I'm not gonna default my values to that because its convenient. I just didn't expect this level of callousness and complacency

My guy it's an operating software lol. I willing join you in the fight to change economic systems eg. Advocating for socialism. I don't care what operating software I use

Maybe it's just an operating system to you, but that data, and tech influence has downstream impacts in data privacy, security, data brokering, etc. its the "climate change is already happening, why try to stop it" mentality that I hate.

Have you seen a person who does not major in engineering or computer science try to use Linux? Your question suggests you have not! :D

My 60 yr old parents manage just fine. Neither worked in tech. I set up a laptop for them and told them to try to learn to do things on their own, they figured most things out with minimum intervention.

OK..... so your response is to do a 'I escaped poverty, which means everyone else can too.' My friend I have read through your comments here, if you honestly think there is nothing extraordinary about Linux and it's just another alternative - your opinions are your opinions and therefore they cannot be 'wrong', but let's just say your preferences are an exception.

You know that linux is cheaper than a Windows license? Do you really think that EVERYONE can learn Windows but only certain people can learn Linux? Everything from the source code, to tutorial and a whole community of people are available to help those those need with navigating linux. FREE OF COST.

Good luck bro. I am sure everyone will realize how right you are very soon.

That's just rude and unnecessary.

You have argued with everyone who disagrees with you in this thread. The word for what you are is 'crybully'. You're either a troll or severely disadvantaged in understanding social cues.

I never understood the obsession with reddit downvotes. playing the good will hunting bit on me is just cringe.

Time to cry about how I blocked you.

Linux requires time. It's not that it's very very hard -- It's that it requires you to sit down and learn how to use it. Even flashing a distro onto a USB and then booting it up through BIOS, for the average person, is difficult and will take time to learn. Most people don't have time, or don't want to put time into it.

You need to do this for windows as well! Tons of people in the community build their own PC's, have amazing degrees, understand thousands of years of world history context, etc. I agree it's a little more work, but spending time to learn being looked at as a negative in a leftist community is making me feel pretty sad.

Holy shit the comments in here. Bring up Linux to a leftist might rival "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds." For irate reactions.

Like…where though? I just see people explaining why it hasn't caught on and OP overreacting to it.

I get it. You hate Linux.

Dude, this is what I was talking about. I literally don't hate linux - I even use it at work. You're seriously overreacting to people.

Dude, seriously. Stop gaslighting me.

lmao, okay. Post my comment that shows me hating linux.

Goodbye 👋

Same reason it's not big everywhere. It's obtuse and unavailable in stores.

that makes sense for why liberals and conservatives don't use it. As leftists we're always looking for different options and possibilities, not just settling for what media or large corporations are telling us good.

No leftists are no better at this shit my guy. The only people with even a passable interest in Linux are people with autism and deep end computer nerds. The leftist in your head is imaginary.

This is just rude.

I'm fine with that

Linux is one of the few things that can bring leftists and libertarians uncomfortably close to each other.

Not sure about that one, leftists seems pretty hardcore against it.

Literally no one in these comments is "pretty hardcore against it", dude. You asked a question and haven't liked the answers.

The answers don't make any sense. The reasons people don't want to use or even learn about it exist in the what they use already or aren't the case. a few people who are honest but most seem reactionarily against it without any semblance of openness to be informed.

Literally where? Saying that the people broadly aren't likely to take the time to use a new OS they're not familiar with isn't "being reactionarily against it", and explaining to you that the average layperson's understanding of technology is far lower than your expectation isn't that either.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ag4hm5/leftist_linux_lover_laments_living_with_lesser?sort=controversial

While responding to poomodomoodododo's comment about the banana diet, I remembered a story from years ago about a dumb woman who ate nothing but bananas and got brain damage. I couldn't remember the details, so I searched for "banana diet brain damage."

Duckduckgo yields 2 negative articles and a bunch positive adverts articles about the greatness of bananas. BIPOC, I am doom-searching, so give me doom and gloom results.

I even found this garbage article by a female doctor :

https://www.thehealthy.com/food/i-ate-bananas-every-day-for-a-week-heres-what-happened

>tl;dr - omg liek i ate a banana everyday and I have so much energy!

Written by Dr. Patricia Varacallo, DO

Updated: Dec. 23, 2023

Medically reviewed by Latoya Julce RN, BSN

>by r-slurs, for r-slurs

No, duckduckBIPOC! I am looking for bananas and brain damage. Not women prancing around and singing about the glory of Big Banana.

So I tried google which wasn't bad. Looks like a bunch of informative stuff! But as I kept scrolling, I get hit with this pile of carp:

Oh yeah, if you click on Images, it's nothing but fat black women eating bananas.

So I settled for Pootine's yandex:

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=banana+diet+brain+damage&lr=21348

And it's nothing but articles about the dangers of banana diets. That's all I wanted, but not really because I was looking for a news story about the lady who ate too many bananas and went into a coma or became even more r-slurred , but I got distracted because I had to give YOU, dear reader , this hard-hitting research.

That's why search engines are crap, and will save the west.

Hey, Marsey! Tell us how you really feel about today's internet.

It's full of BIPOCs.

For the strags who didn't know. AutoDesk has a cool forum for DIY projects. I particularly like the competitions they host for specific themes, like wood Pallets!

https://www.instructables.com/Pallet-Projects-1

There's also DIY chemistry projects in there. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK

https://www.instructables.com/search?q=chemistry

Like this strag adding pure caffeine to coffee grounds to save time

Caffeine is a deadly poison, do not exceed a safe dose unless you are prepared to experience shaking, feeling like you are going to die, and/or actually dying. When handling it take appropriate safety precautions and wash your hands afterwards. DO NOT LICK YOUR FINGERS AFTER HANDLING CAFFEINE.

If under 18 undertake this experiment only under the supervision of an intelligent, competent adult.

I ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ACCIDENTS THAT ARISE AS A RESULT OF PERFORMING THIS PROCEDURE.

>ULTRA-MARSEY CRACK CATNIP EXTRACK (((nepetalactone)))

https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Kitty-Crack%3a--ultra-potent-catnip-extract

We're all going to die.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

[...]

The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.

Edit: The linked /pol/ thread is kinda insane

Edit 2:

They're now trying to cover it up

a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such a breakthrough and that the company's research progress didn't play a role in Altman's sudden firing