According to the Savior of Humanity's privately owned treat printer, this is the "funniest picture of all time" and he affirms that with "😂 "
Pack it up. Nothing can be funnier than this.
Or perhaps, nothing can be funny anymore.
The other angle is he knows this sucks but it's his AI so he has to say it's funny
Funny enough it's not even his AI. He is just running an image generator that came out recently called "Flux".
Man, I knew he wouldn't have worked on it himself but this is surprisingly lazier than I would have thought
"Grok" is a concept from a Robert Heinlein novel. This is the most
thing possible.Level 1 Heinlein take: He was very complicated
Level 2 Heinlein take: He was just a fascist
Level 3 Heinlein take: Transition could have saved her
Hahahha i love it. I'd say "i have to re-read it now" but i have no real desire to re-read that trash even if it gives me ways to dunk on libertarian dorks.
privately owned
He doesn't own shit in this case, he just had one of his lackeys make whatever LLM he ripped off for his chatbot prompt a Flux server instance. Flux itself is open source, has nothing to do with him or anything he's touched, and runs on midrange consumer hardware. It's also as horrifying as it is fascinating, because despite only a modest increase in system requirements over Stable Diffusion it's starting to lack the really obvious flaws that earlier models have.
I don't know what Grok is under the hood, because it doesn't make sense for it to be its own independent model over just a modified version of some other presumably open source LLM that had permissive enough licensing for a derivative work to not mention it (or his lackeys just ripped one off and didn't credit it at all), but the image generator that it's prompting is just a Flux instance. So basically one of his lackeys set up some servers running something like comfyui (also open source) servers set to its remote API mode and got his chatbot to send API calls to them on request, and those servers are just running some basic workflow with the default Flux checkpoint.
I just want to emphasize that here he's trying to leach off open source research tech that he doesn't own and isn't involved with in any way.
He's so lame
Anything generated by AI is going to be low quality slop just due to the very nature of how these images are produced. Because it can only cobble together existing images, it’ll never truly -
sees the image in question
spits out coffee
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HOLY FUCK AAAHAHSHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HES YELLOW
HES FUCKIN YELLOW
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHh
These systems aren't intelligent because they're not trying to develop a langford basilisk to put us out of our collective misery.
Edit: the "langford basilisk" is a concept from science fiction of an image that for whatever reason causes damage to the human mind. Usually the conceit is it encodes information the mind can't process resulting in a severe seizure or similar outcome. David Langford explored the idea in some depth starting with a short story called B.L.I.T which is a meditation on terrorism, weapons proliferation, hate, the dangers of rapid scientific discover, and also a Nazi gets pwned
Roko's basilisk is very funny because it's just a version of Pascal's Wager where if you think it's bullshit god just goes "understandable have a nice day" and only punishes you if you believe in it but don't sufficiently obsess about it.
What if Roko's Basilisk has already happened and generative AI is its revenge against humanity.
Isn't that idea also present in some love craft stuff
Very different concept. Lovecraft stuff is "ooh these cosmic higher dimensional beings are so weird they drive men mad!"
A Langford Basilisk is based on the idea that your mind is analogous to a computer and the Basilisk image is visual data that causes an unrecoverable hard crash. There's nothing magical about the image, the problem happens when your brain tries to make sense of what it is seeing.
I mean it gave me a sensible chuckle, that picture is not without humor at all. But the funniest picture ever? It's not even the funniest picture I saw today. Peezer was funnier by far.
Real lack of standards, your generation
i didn't die from looking at it. i want a refund.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Wow, grok managed to make minions worse
Grok is woke