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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by vlunkr on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:31AM (#32765240)
> I was ripping Loab apart, and putting her back together. She is an emergent island in the latent space that we don't know how to locate with text queries. But for the AI, Loab was an equally strong point of convergence as a verbal concept. And really, it was usually stronger!

The nonsense words of someone who really wants to be the creator of the next big creepypasta.

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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by gatonegro on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:14AM (#32766799)
> The nonsense words of someone who really wants to be the creator of the next big creepypasta.

It took them about 24 hours to come up with a merch store[1] for this character, too.

[1] https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/156756520182584525...

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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by vlunkr on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:49AM (#32767346)
I suppose they might as well while they’ve got their 5 minutes of fame.
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by lm28469 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:39AM (#32766244)
Or someone who's pressing buttons and has absolutely zero fucking ideas of what the underlying tech id and does
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:12AM (#32766761)
> But I can confirm Loab exists in multiple image-generation AI models

Or they're lying and this is just a stunt to generate buzz.

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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by wruza on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:06AM (#32766672)
Reminds of most humanities.
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by rafram on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:26AM (#32766976)
That’s a very ignorant statement.
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by NoMoreBro on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:52PM (#32770261)
Italians have a precise word for that: "supercazzola". It's when someone voluntarily uses this nonsense bs to sell something or simulate some kind of knowledge.
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by white_dragon88 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:37PM (#32774660)
That word makes me hungry
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by 2-718-281-828 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:12AM (#32776672)
oh, really? it translates to "super cock sucker" :D
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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by kortex on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:24AM (#32766957)
> She is an emergent island in the latent space that we don't know how to locate with text queries

That is definitely a tall statement short on evidence. We expect there to be countless islands in latent space - this is basically a related concept to grandmother neurons, although instead of "Jennifer Aniston neuron" we have this "Loab neuron" which has no particular obvious origin. But I don't think there is anything privileged or special about this cluster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell

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Re:Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Gener... by sidewndr46 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:52PM (#32774751)
They forgot to mention how the metaverse created her, but now she has escaped into the real world!
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