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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Superliminal advertising is way more effective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Hey you! Join the Navy!!"

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is the opposite of subliminal. It's almost super-liminal. This people must think that a punch in the face is subtle disagreement.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Yvan eht nioj

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yvan eht nioj!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl I can't read it until I squint

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Depends on what device I'm looking at it on. The thumbnail preview makes the words super obvious, but the full size version on a computer screen is almost unreadable, even if I squint.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Drink more Ovaltine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other way around, people think subtle disagreement is a punch in the face

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, i think it ws right the first time. They think something that is super-liminal is subliminal. That's the big obvious thing, vs. the small subtle thing. So, in conparison, they would think a punch in the face is a subtle disagreement. So big obvious thing vs. small subtle thing.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's what's really going on

Yeah nothing out of the ordinary

Thanks I guess

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's vice, what do you expect.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

it's clearly a clickbait title

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

On Twitter—which is now called “X” for some reason—

Best part of the article right there.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"On Twitter—which is now called “X” for some reason—algorithmically-boosted blue-check users..."

Words so mesmerising I turned off my adblock

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ControlNet uses the AI image-generating tool Stable Diffusion, and one of its initial uses was generating fancy QR codes using the code as an input image. That idea was then taken further, with some users developing a workflow that lets them specify any image or text as a black-and-white mask that implants itself into the generated image—kind of like an automated, generative version of the masking tool in Photoshop.

“What happened there was that this user discovered that if they used the QR Code ControlNet but instead of feeding it a QR code, they fed it some other black-and-white patterns, they could create nice optical illusions,” said Passos. “You can now send a conditioning image and the model blends in a pattern that satisfies that while still making a coherent image at the same time.”

Which is...just ControlNet?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the article explains what Control Net is for those of us who haven't heard of it before. And the article says that Control Net was (apparently) initially meant to be used for qr codes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Sorry to be indirect - ControlNet is a Stable Diffusion tool that generally allows for generating images with input control frames. The QR code use-case was a single potential use that went viral.

I was just eye-rolling a bit over the expert in the article also not understanding what ControlNet is, since it's propagating an incorrect history.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I read the ‘Gay Sex’ as ‘Day Sex’ 🤔

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Champion of the Cum!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ohhhh ahhh ahhhhhhh

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If God wanted us to have sex at day, why did he create the night!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough gay sex was fine in ancient Rome (as long as you were the dominant one) but having sex in the light (whether natural or candle light) was seen as a massive taboo.

(Amongst the upper and middle classes anyway, I doubt the majority of people cared)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Day sex fan VS Night sex enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I read it as OAY SEX. I kept asking myself... the hell is an oay?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't Vice go out of business like months ago?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's fun, I've been making my own!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's going on is them ruining cats for me. Every time I see one of these pictures I want to puke at how unrealistic the animals look. I found myself to truly despise AI generated content with burning passion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I kind of like the little biped guy second from left though, cute little bundle of fur on sticks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every week, the social media hype-train seems to find new ways to sensationalize generative AI tools. Most recently, a new technique that allows users to produce optical illusions went viral, with some describing the results as AI-generated images with “subliminal” messages.

These writers got the same energy as an envious teenage girl

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that even mean? It's literally a first paragraph summary of the body of the article? In what way does it sound "envious" and from the mind of a teenage girl?

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