ChatGPT - SkyNet is Coming for your Pixels & other AI Shenanigans

[maidenhaver]

would you buy deez nuts?

[Klerik]

Oh yeah? Well I heard Dee was a tranny.

[General Reign]

[jcd]

Exactly as I predicted

[Sweeper]

I gave it a try.
It's about as reddit as I expected.

[GhostCow]

I gave it a try.
It's about as reddit as I expected.

If you hate reddit then please use catbox.moe to host stuff instead of shitgur

[rusty_shackleford]

If you hate reddit then please use catbox.moe to host stuff instead of shitgur

catbox.moe is slow

going to eventually enable image uploads on the forum, don't right now because my VPS has a small amount of storage. Either going to look into integrating object storage with phpbb or discuss this with the hosting provider.

[madbringer]

If you hate reddit then please use catbox.moe to host stuff instead of shitgur

catbox.moe is slow

going to eventually enable image uploads on the forum, don't right now because my VPS has a small amount of storage. Either going to look into integrating object storage with phpbb or discuss this with the hosting provider.

Last I checked gofile and mediafire worked. And mega, but u pay for storage.

[Klerik]

[Acrux]

The absolute state of Pr*testants.

The absolute state of G*rmans.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-chur ... 7a7263d348

Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out

FUERTH, Germany (AP) — The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.

The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.

“Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany,” the avatar said with an expressionless face and monotonous voice.

The 40-minute service — including the sermon, prayers and music — was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna.

“I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98% comes from the machine,” the 29-year-old scholar told The Associated Press.

The AI church service was one of hundreds of events at the convention of Protestants in the Bavarian towns of Nuremberg and the neighboring Fuerth, and it drew such immense interest that people formed a long queue outside the 19th-century, neo-Gothic building an hour before it began.

The convention itself — Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in German — takes place every two years in the summer at a different place in Germany and draws tens of thousands of believers to pray, sing and discuss their faith. They also talk about current world affairs and look for solutions to key issues, which this year included global warming, the war in Ukraine — and artificial intelligence.

This year’s gathering is taking place from Wednesday to Sunday under the motto “Now is the time.” That slogan was one of the sentences Simmerlein fed ChatGPT when he asked the chatbot to develop the sermon.

“I told the artificial intelligence ‘We are at the church congress, you are a preacher … what would a church service look like?’” Simmerlein said. He also asked for psalms to be included, as well as prayers and a blessing at the end.

“You end up with a pretty solid church service,” Simmerlein said, sounding almost surprised by the success of his experiment.

Indeed, the believers in the church listened attentively as the artificial intelligence preached about leaving the past behind, focusing on the challenges of the present, overcoming fear of death, and never losing trust in Jesus Christ.

The entire service was “led” by four different avatars on the screen, two young women, and two young men.

At times, the AI-generated avatar inadvertently drew laughter as when it used platitudes and told the churchgoers with a deadpan expression that in order “to keep our faith, we must pray and go to church regularly.”

Some people enthusiastically videotaped the event with their cell phones, while others looked on more critically and refused to speak along loudly during The Lord’s Prayer.

Heiderose Schmidt, a 54-year-old who works in IT, said she was excited and curious when the service started but found it increasingly off-putting as it went along.

“There was no heart and no soul,” she said. “The avatars showed no emotions at all, had no body language and were talking so fast and monotonously that it was very hard for me to concentrate on what they said.”

“But maybe it is different for the younger generation who grew up with all of this,” Schmidt added.

Marc Jansen, a 31-year-old Lutheran pastor from Troisdorf near the western German city of Cologne, brought a group of teenagers from his congregation to St. Paul. He was more impressed by the experiment.

“I had actually imagined it to be worse. But I was positively surprised how well it worked. Also the language of the AI worked well, even though it was still a bit bumpy at times,” Jansen said.

What the young pastor missed, however, was any kind of emotion or spirituality, which he says is essential when he writes his own sermons.

Anna Puzio, 28, a researcher on the ethics of technology from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, also attended the service. She said she sees a lot of opportunities in the use of AI in religion — such as making religious services more easily available and inclusive for believers who for various reasons may not be able experience their faith in person with others in houses of worship.

However, she noted there are also dangers when it comes to the use of AI in religion.

“The challenge that I see is that AI is very human-like and that it’s easy to be deceived by it,” she said.

“Also, we don’t have only one Christian opinion, and that’s what AI has to represent as well,” she said. “We have to be careful that it’s not misused for such purposes as to spread only one opinion.”

Simmerlein said it is not his intention to replace religious leaders with artificial intelligence. Rather, he sees the use of AI as a way to help them with their everyday work in their congregations.

Some pastors seek inspiration in literature, he says, so why not also ask AI for ideas regarding an upcoming sermon. Others would like to have more time for individual spiritual guidance of their parishioners, so why not speed up the process of writing the sermon with the help of a chatbot to make time for other important duties.

“Artificial intelligence will increasingly take over our lives, in all its facets,” Simmerlein said. “And that’s why it’s useful to learn to deal with it.”

However, the experimental church service also showed the limits to implementing artificial AI in church, or in religion. There was no real interaction between the believers and the chatbot, which wasn’t able to respond to the laughter or any other reactions by the churchgoers as a human pastor would have been able to do.

“The pastor is in the congregation, she lives with them, she buries the people, she knows them from the beginning,” Simmerlein said. “Artificial intelligence cannot do that. It does not know the congregation.”

[Klerik]

AUTOAIM HOVER-ROUND WALMART CANNON FODDER ASEXUAL REDDIT WARRIORS

[jcd]

“There was no heart and no soul,” she said. “The avatars showed no emotions at all, had no body language and were talking so fast and monotonously that it was very hard for me to concentrate on what they said.”

That doesn't sound like an issue with ChatGPT.

Braindead journos have no idea how technology works and feel qualified to comment on it.

[Ranselknulf]

[rusty_shackleford]

there are people who don't say "please" and "thank you" when interacting with AI

OpenAI's internal prompts use please, leading me to suggest it does generate better results.

[NEG]

I hope those of you men not already using Stable Diffusion are enjoying DALL-E 3 before it gets (even more) censored.

[Ranselknulf]

[Kalarion]

The hands are getting better. Disturbing.

[gerey]

Disturbing.

Artfags are having a meltdown over this. Many of them were stupid and arrogant enough to laugh at AI because it struggled with hands and feet, not realizing that all the companies needed to do was to train the AI to improve the output.

[Oyster Sauce]

Dall-e 3 has been gimped to hell now. I can't get it to generate images with the most innocuous descriptions.

[Element]

I've tried a lot of them and there are no free models that even come close to GPT 3.5. They just spew nonsense and are useless. There's a lot of open source shit in this area and it's all garbage.

What about llama 2?

[NEG]

Dall-e 3 has been gimped to hell now. I can't get it to generate images with the most innocuous descriptions.

It was always a matter of time. Still, you can do some fun, if basic things.

Stable Diffusion run on your local machine is still the only game in town for truly uncensored fun.

[NEG]

Artfags are having a meltdown over this. Many of them were stupid and arrogant enough to laugh at AI because it struggled with hands and feet, not realizing that all the companies needed to do was to train the AI to improve the output.

The hands are still usually screwed up in some way, but they are much better most of the time. You can also fix the hands in Stable Diffusion. Just requires extra steps and more time.

[gerey]

Stable Diffusion run on your local machine is still the only game in town for truly uncensored fun.

I have hope that the NovelAI team will eventually get their image generation part of the AI to an acceptable level, since they're the only company in the business that is actually committed to freedom of speech.

[NEG]

I have hope that the NovelAI team will eventually get their image generation part of the AI to an acceptable level, since they're the only company in the business that is actually committed to freedom of speech.

They're working on two models. One is trained from scratch and I *think* the other is trained on SDXL.

It's still all anime though because Kuru doesn't want to end up in prison.

IMO, it's better to just run the models yourself. You can get a wider variety of styles, better detail, custom models and loras. But that requires a decent (8gb minimum) Nvidia card and the willingness to set it up.

[GhostCow]

Has anyone tried Gab's AI? It seems like the best hope to me. I haven't checked on it in many months though.

https://gab.com/ai

[MaranaxInfirmux]

rusty when the donations start trickling in:

[rusty_shackleford]

rusty when the donations start trickling in:

rusty when he approves a post he finds funny:

[Acrux]

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/sam-a ... enais-ceo/

Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board and step down as CEO.

In a post on OpenAI’s official blog, the company writes that Altman’s departure follows a “deliberative review process by the board” that concluded that Altman “wasn’t consistently candid in his communications” with other board members, “hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”

[Acrux]

Ha ha - just kidding!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/239 ... urn-as-ceo

The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday with no notice, is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want significant governance changes.

Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.

[Tweed]

Altman be praised!