Evan Armstrong | datagen/acc

Augmentoolkit 3.0 Released! Augmentoolkit lets anyone make data and train AI to understand new facts or do new tasks (and more). Usage is: add files, click button. Scales well and usable for production. - Train an LLM to understand new subjects by just adding documents. - You can also train AI to do basically any task better just by explaining how to rate/grade attempts at that task. - Do all this on your own hardware. - Scales well. - Easy to use (add files, click button). - Running custom models works better, is cheaper, and lets you control when+how it updates. - Contains a year and a half's worth of innovation and iteration. github.com/e-p-armstrong/…

Days after burying his son. My friend @pastorlocke stood in tears in Washington D.C. under the anointing of God and gave a powerful word for America. 😭 I have never been more proud to call him my friend. #rededicate250

@marla_rides @crusade_enjoyer looks like cancer = about a half of roe, so a third, roughly speaking?

@crusade_enjoyer Do we know the % that would be incorporated in this pie chart?

I still remember the first time I saw this chart. Something inside me died that day.

Thousands of people on this stupid website alternate between asking why we can't build things anymore and throwing toddler tantrums about AI and nuclear power and basically any form of new infrastructure. You are why. Fuck all of you.

> Find a good artist > Give them a healthy budget and some time > Watch as they make gold > Repeat

It is possible to use something for a while and still gain a wrong conclusion.

The points here have been hashed and rehashed many times so I won't go into them. I will just say it's sad that the anti-AI crowd is so antagonistic and closed-minded, secular or Christian. It's disheartening to see a hobby and passion of mine -- not to mention a useful tool -- be disparaged as if it were Evil itself. AI can be used for good. I used it to contribute a reader to your Bible gacha project in the early days. This kind of blanket condemnation -- and to bring God into it too, to challenge our faith, to speak, not as if this is an ambiguous and debatable issue, but with certainty that your way is the right way and that we are using evil? Stings.

If you're a Christian creator and I see you use AI consistently or defend it, I'm muting you. I'm just really fed up of seeing Christian creators posting slop on my timeline. Before you read further, I'm not looking for an argument on the topic and I will not argue with anyone in the replies. What I say here is the entirety of what I want to say on the topic right now. 1. Generative AI is theft Gen AI scrapes art from thousands of artists across the internet. Most of not all of the big models scrape indiscriminately, meaning they take art they find from websites they have no connection to (so it is not taken under TOS or any sort of agreement). The art is 99% of the time stolen without consent in any form. It's theft, plain and simple. 2. Gen AI is a mockery of creativity. I believe that being able to create is something inherent to being made in God's image. We are the only creatures to create art for no practical reason - just to appreciate beauty. We are created to create, creativity is a form of worship. To let a machine do that for us is a mockery of creativity, a powerful gift God gave us to honour Him with. Furthermore, generating images of God is completely blasphemous. 3. Gen AI is killing creativity. So many people who would have valued art enough to learn to draw, or to write, or to direct films, or to create music have instead settled with using AI to do it for them. I see an enormous amount of people content to "hire out" every creative process and decision in their lives to a soulless machine. Which is tragic for me, because what does that leave you with? As a Christian creator, you simply should not support AI. On top of these reasons, I haven't even mentioned the horrific impact it's had on the environment, the cultural impact of AI and convenience culture, or how insulting it is to your brothers and sisters in Christ who are artists. "I'm too broke to hire artists." That's okay, I'm not asking you to hire artists. Tbh, I would be happier if you learned how to draw yourself. I don't buy art either because of the same reason - I'm broke and I can't afford it lol. But that doesn't excuse you participating in a system that is stealing already finished work from artists and slowly killing the last shred of appreciation for process and hard work left in the West. You're not entitled to art. You do not have a right to have art done of you or your character or anything. You simply just do not get to have it if you're not willing to obtain it through moral means. Furthermore, creators have been surviving online just fine without AI for quite a while. There are ways to make it by without getting new pieces of art every five seconds. And I'd actually be willing to help anyone who wants help in that regard ^^ "You just don't want AI to steal your job" Nah. I know this is a big issue people make with AI, but I don't think it's a good argument tbh. Because technology is always changing the way society works. People lose jobs to advances in technology all the time. Personally, I started my art career after AI was already a thing. I know I can survive just fine with it out there, as I know most artists can do the same. The issue I take with AI isn't self serving or motivated by fear. I am simply claiming that AI is morally wrong on so many degrees and I'm tired of seeing other Christians support it. It's frustrating. I plan to make a video at some point talking about just how Generative AI works, it's history, it's impact, and what it's future looks like. Until then, this is my obligatory yap. And hey, if you do use AI and want to talk to me about it (respectfully and calmly) and perhaps workshop solutions to your content that doesn't involve AI or throwing loads of cash down the drain, I am more than happy to talk. I'm not blocking anyone, just muting so I don't have to get flashbanged by AI slop every time I open this app XD Thanks! ❤️ Phrog

@PhrogPollen Because once you nail the workflow the scale makes it useful for a lot of things.

I can repost too >:D If AI is so hard to do and takes so much time and effort, then why not just use that time and effort to learn to draw? Why not create something new with your own two hands, something entirely yours, instead of stealing? Also I used to be pro-AI and prompted lots of stuff before I learned how AI works lol

🚨 Day 54 of fighting for my archive This isn’t a glitch. YouTube’s AI has wiped out 13+ years of WWII tank archive footage and veteran stories. My entire channel is gone, and my account has been disabled 155,000 subscribers erased overnight. People are now calling me a PDF file, because in their minds the channel “wasn’t deleted” even though you can clearly see that it was. youtube.com/channel/UCjejQ… That's the internet for you! First, the channel was removed. Then, my entire account was disabled. YouTube support bots claiming it was a Google product trigger, doesn't make a lick of sense when the channel was deleted first! The content that got flagged? Historical WWII footage. No nudity. No inappropriate intent. Just real history yet it was labeled as “child abuse material.” And I’m not the only one this has happened to. youtube.com/shorts/8uT0C9_… This isn’t just about one channel. It raises serious concerns about how automated systems are handling and potentially erasing historical archives. We can’t let real history be misclassified or disappear like this. #RestorePanzerPicture #YouTubeCensorship #WWIIHistory #SaveHistory @TeamYouTube Support the effort to restore the archive: patreon.com/Panzerpicture

I dreamed of a cover that doesn't exist, so I spent 1 hour making it with AI, it came out exactly as I imagined, and now my mood is 200% better ^-^

@BeauMerric42120 @misoginomisogi AI reply. Begone bot. Unless you are multimodal and know audio, then you cannot appreciate the subject of which I speak.

@e_p_armstrong @misoginomisogi I'm intrigued by the connection between coding and music! Can you elaborate on how @misoginomisogi's sound influences your creative process?

Randomly want to give a shoutout to @misoginomisogi since while I've been coding on creative projects I've been listening to their music, and EGAD their music is good. And it's free to use in things! Definitely going to include some of it in a game I am making.

@misoginomisogi I am excited! You have an uncommon talent.

今週の土曜日に新曲だします！

No joke this meme has gotten me through some nasty funk several times when experimenting with new art stuff

infosec people used to whine with 'what a week huh' when it was one significant vuln in months to feel relevant but now that 0days, supply chains and evals saturations be dropping like cluster munitions they dont say anything they Just look at you like this .

We must create more Art, and fewer Products. Art made for its own sake is beautiful, meaningful, timeless, spiritually rich. Products made by businesspeople to entertain NPCs is worse than a waste of time. It fills the belly while offering no nutrition and rots our teeth.

I need to be real with you all. I've gone back and forth about posting this but I can't stay quiet anymore. My 4 year old son has a severe neurological condition. He's non-verbal and autistic and requires constant specialized care. That alone turned our family's life upside down. We found treatments that are extremely promising but they're just out of reach right now. Then a few weeks ago, my 11 year old was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. What was already the hardest chapter of our lives just got significantly harder. We have a 4 year old with intensive daily needs, an 11 year old whose health now requires around the clock management, and a 1 year old. There aren't enough hours in the day and there aren't enough of us. The art and design markets have been going through some serious changes and it's left us in the tightest financial spot we've ever been in. I'm not here for sympathy. I'm here because love and will do anything for them and have to exhaust every option I can. If you or anyone you know needs creative work, I have 15+ years of experience across brand identity, creative direction, advertising, content, and AI art. I've worked with adidas, Nike, Google, Valentino, and many others. I'm ready to start immediately. If you love the art, I have a small curation of unminted new works and my PIECES drop is live on SR. I'm also very open to commissions. I've always tried to show up here with energy and positivity. Right now the most honest thing I feel I can do is show up with the truth instead. I'm going to get my sons the care they need and get my family to a place where we can all thrive. If you can help from any angle, please reach out. If you can RT, that matters too. DMs are open. 🙏

@wraithlord451 @BasedBattletech end reminds me of

@BasedBattletech I prefer this version of Solarpunk

There's ZERO punk in this. This is solar cottage-posting. Solar punk is a corporation caging the sun and the rebels trying to destroy the dyson sphere thats killing earth. This is retarded.

@edgaralandough Exodus 34:6-8 God is consistent

What's a scripture you hold on to but not a lot of people know about? Not Philippians 4:13. Not John 3:16. Give me the hidden gems, the ones you cherish in your heart but never see on shirts. Drop the verse below.

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

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