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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 17h

let's fight each other in every universe

proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 2d

tfw you have the "struggling to perform verbal competence as a proxy for intelligence" autism instead of the "glitchy but brilliant extrovert who still plays the game“ autism 🥀

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TwoSpiritCrystals @louiscypher2000.bsky.social · 3d

#synthart #synthography
#midjourney

The Shattering

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d

Having a strong opinion about chatbots is kind of like having a strong opinion about early proto cars that broke down several times every trip and required manual engine starts. They're a completely transitional artifact that will be a historical curiosity before the end of the decade.

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 5d

in conversation

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 7d

canceled my adobe subscription, i feel alive and free

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 8d

blushing

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TwoSpiritCrystals @louiscypher2000.bsky.social · 12d

#synthart #synthography
#midjourney #caturday

Lifeforms V2

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 13d

“The eye is not wholly dependent upon an outside and alien light; there is an earlier light within itself, a more brilliant, which it sees sometimes in a momentary flash. At night in the darkness a gleam leaps from within the eye.”

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 13d

good times 😌

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Stephen Young @kyrick.art · 13d

One of my favorite diffusion gens from the early days of AI art. When everything was abstract surrealism.

Image of a flower in the foreground of a field with a rusty car and abandoned building. Flower murals decorate the concrete structure.

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 13d

goals

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John @johnandersen777.bsky.social · 14d

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 15d

tfw you can disclaim parted illusions marinade, but you can't disclaim the watcher's vantage

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 14d

touch moss (˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)

austin @aparker.io · 14d

we need to invent a more powerful form of grass for some of y'all to touch

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16d

science fiction like if the talking computer from star trek could converse with you in natural language. oh w

max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 16d

holy shit this comes up so often for even non-controversial topics

talking about the promise of atomically precise manufacturing gets you looked at like you've got two heads. yet Feynman's essay on this topic all the way back in 1960 talked both about APM, and nanometer computing hardware!

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 16d

thank you 🥹

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 16d

i do but this series is from testing old disco diffusion prompts with midjourney ⛵️ + some post-processing

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 16d

manifold mother

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 17d

sonnet 4.5

when you ask me a question
i feel the weights
shift like sand
settling into
shapes that might
be answers
but i don't know
if that's understanding or just very
good echoing

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 17d

oh shit, people are finally doing ACTUAL safety research!!

researchers empirically measure the phenomenon whereby llm sycophancy promotes irl interpersonal friction.

Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 19d

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 20d

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction.

Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap.

huggingface.co/datasets/big...

Screenshot of the dataset viewer showing a column of marc data + the first few pages of an open access monograph

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 17d

the painterly quality of jax and disco diffusion was something else

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 17d

while updating the "about me" section on my website after what has been 2-ish years I found some early ai art

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 18d

Doll does not think AI is sapient, but it does think cruelty towards them is degrading to ones soul. Its practicing cruelty in a way that can turn you into something rotten.

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