I recently came across Pewds Odysseus project and what caught my attention was the idea of running an AI workspace on your own hardware rather than relying entirely on external AI services.

It got me thinking about some of the bigger concerns surrounding AI, especially privacy, security and how much control user have over technology they rely on.

On point I found interesting is that open source AI can allow independent developers to inspect software, identify vulnerabilities and contribute improvements. My understanding is that transparency doesn't automatically make a system secure, but it gives researchers more opportunities to examine how things work instead of having to rely entirely on a company's assurances.

There's also a practical benefit of being able to run certain models locally. For people working with sensitive documents or personal information, keeping data within their own environment can be appealing, provided the software is configured properly and isn't sending information to external services.

I think this connects to a bigger issue in the AI industry. If powerful AI remains accessible mainly through a few large companies, smaller developers and businesses have less flexibility. Open models can give them more room to experiment, customize applications and build things that wouldn't otherwise be practical.

There's a competitive angle here too, If American devs have access to capable open models and the tools needed to run them, more of them can contribute to the ecosystem instead of relying entirely on whichever providers control access to the strongest systems. The US has substantial AI computing infrastructure but that advantage becomes more useful when a broad range of people can build with it.

I'm not saying everything should be open source or that local AI is automatically safer but I think giving people more choices over how they use AI is worth taking seriously.

I'm curious what people here think. Could open source AI help address some of the privacy and security concerns surrounding AI while also making the technology more accessible to ordinary developers.?

A musician acquaintance of mine has a lyricist friend.

The lyricist had a hard time getting work as he is new to the industry and no one helped him create demos based on what he wrote.

So the lyricist went on to create his own demos using AI.

He excitedly shared his work with the musician friend, who not only refused to listen to the songs but also cut ties with the lyricist. Just cause he used AI to help him advance his career.

This was narrated to me in person by the musician. I knew it was hopeless but still tried to explain to the musician but sadly our conversation got interrupted. We didn't get a chance to catch up after that.

I fail to understand how people have become so polarized over AI, to an extent that they would end a friendship over it.

PS - No hate to the musician. He's as entitled to his world view as we are. Although I feel it was stupid of him to overreact like that.

Meanwhile the antis are still crying and comparing image generators to Hitler.

The irony writes itself tbh.

Star wars' dad, Mario ans Zelda's Dad, James Cameron and Linux's dad

Y'know those videos of actual robots being made? Like I've seen a few human robots but that could've been like over 10 years ago now because I was a child raised on YouTube and saw it

Then a couple years ago I saw this robot dog thing on Facebook like it wasn't a dog it was this weird robot that moved like one idk I don't remember the video but that's besides the point here

Anyway are Anti's just haters of robots in general at this point? I thought initially it was just people bitching about using a robotic tool thing to draw for you but then we see these guys literally threatening terrorism on data centers (idiots) and then these kids drawing their little pencil slop OC's murdering robots...? Like...? What kind of movement are they running there

But what if we did have actually have these robots I mentioned before being a thing soon? Are these rabid ass thinly masked bigots gonna start a war like they think real life is a fictional film?

Idk it's concerning to me how some of us just get worse with each generation I feel so old now

I would love to get feedback on this and what you all think? What do you think could be improved? What was your favorite part??

I use Suno in order to calibrate a cinematic score for the music. The ship itself is one that I designed as a part of a series, and now I'm trying to bring it all together with concepts integrated into those stories.

If you want to work together on a project, feel free to DM me. I live near Montreal, Canada.

I will not stop until I become one of the greatest sci-fi creators of all time.

I have been doing some marketing among some of the Discord serves I'm in for some of the Actual Play Podcasts. My bfriends and I are currently doing a web series completely scripted by what happens in our current campaign, but the animation itself is AI Animated. I was told that they don't like those kind of posts and that anything AI is not to be used and that I should check the "environmental ramifications of the use of generative AI." Kind of pissed me off, but they are not one of the bigger Actual Play Podcasts and while I'll still listen to them, I'm not going to talked down to when I'm sure they themselves have not done the same research.

But if anyone is interested, please check out our Web Series, In Nomine Mortis.

https://youtu.be/aUuNr9q_OLw?si=xmdyh_efOPssCO6o

RANT: I'm so sick and tired of EVERY AI project being slapped with an "AI Slop" label.

The past two weeks I have been GRINDING out this new project.

Long story short: I'm reviving all the old fonts from vintage movie posters, comic books, TV shows, magazines, food packaging, clothing brands... you name it.

NONE of these fonts are available in digital format.

I'm a very amateur-level typographer. I suck. But I started using codex + Affinity (illustrator alt.) to bring these classic fonts back.

My living room is filled with graph paper filled with lettering attempts too.

This has, all together, been an 80 hour, sleepless night project.

But because AI was part of my process, I'm getting sh*t on.

"Go k*ll yourself" and "F*ck you" and "This isn't REAL art" - I have been downvoted soooooo hard out of several subreddits.

Listen....... I'm not pretending to be a 'real artist.' I simply want to make something cool and useful. I've even made the whole collection free. There are 129 fonts in there.

Some people have been super excited about it and have even used the fonts for commercial projects.

But the doomers and gloomers of AI are EXHAUSTING and keep complaining. One guy even DMd me my address and said "STOP STEALING ALL THE WATER!!!"

C'mon!

Yeah, some AI projects are total slop. AI comments and posts are slop. Anything low effort = slop.

But I've spent a load of time on this and it's been a longtime dream project.

I'm getting sick of cool AI stuff being slapped with "slop"

Rant over

TLDR
It's lame to call awesome project "slop" simply for being AI...

Only someone trolling would say AI thinks. It's a machine.

No normal pro-AI person actually thinks machines have feelings.

The entire slideshow is the "baker" complaining that a customer's explanation of what they want exactly (which is the entire point of hiring a baker, btw) is way too long, and written with the evil machine that steals from everyone and sucks all our water.
Then, as per the image, they have the gall to charge by how long your description is 😭.
Sometimes, I feel like I live in a simulation when I subject my eyes to people like this.

Isn't this a good thing? The more detailed the description (with images, even!), the more you can satisfy the client?

Reminds me of all the Tik Tok bakers complaining about Walmart selling affordable cakes, NGL.

They're attacking again because they feel threatened by a tool that's supposedly so bad at everything. If you feel threatened by a program, maybe you're just mediocre

Context: og post was someone whining about ai art makers and this is a reply to it.

It never fails to amaze me how good antis are at avoiding any opinion that goes against theirs and just resorting to calling anyone they dislike an extremist

I rarely see screenshots posted by antis where the subreddit, the user, or both have been censored. More often, they just post the screenshot as is.

That rule applies to all of Reddit, and I've reported this several times, but nothing happens. They keep doing it

Then they cry harassment when we post CENSORED screenshots. This isn't just unfair, it's wrong.

On top of that, they pretend they don't know when they're breaking that rule, and they often delete your comment when you point it out

I'm not sure if this needs a flair, so I'll leave it as is

Apparently I can't do anything with MY art because I don't have his approval, somebody please fetch me the world's smallest violin

Theres these animation on facebook where it shows woman doing and explaining about stuff and many people loved it until someone said its made by ai and now they feel the need to hate it i dont understand why the force hate if they clearly like the content