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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why & When Is This Happening?

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My sides went into orbit. They aren't even trying to come up with believable lies any more, right?

  • If the concern was to make Reddit "faster, simpler, and easier to use", they'd ditch chat and keep DMs
  • "muh futchure" fallacy (appeal to novelty)
  • pretending that they want/care for user feedback

...I think that the reason is twofold: 1) it's easier to plug advertisement into the new chat system, and 2) chat only works in new.reddit so they can use it as an excuse to deprecate yet another old.reddit system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Can someone from USA explain to me what's up with fentanyl, and why is your government so obsessed with this specific drug?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Bingo - this tree is non-existent outside my homeland, so people barely speak about it in English - and odds are that the model was trained with almost no pictures of it. However one of the names you see for it in English is Paraná pine, so it's modelling it after images of European pines - because odds are those are plenty in its training set.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I have considerably less experience with image generation than text generators, but I kind of expect the issue to be only truly fixed if people train the model with a bunch of pictures of glasses full of wine.

I'll run a test using a local tree, that is supposed to look like this:

@[email protected] draw for me a picture of three Araucaria angustifolia trees style:flux

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's actually really good, considering the odd request!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is not a completely full glass.

it’s not supposed to be filled all the way

What I requested is not what you're "supposed" to do, indeed. You aren't supposed to drink wine from glasses that are completely full. Except when really drunk. But then might as well drink straight from the bottle.

...fuck, I played myself now. I really want some booze.

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

It does for a while already. Frankly, it's the only reason why I'd use Gemini on first place (DDG version of GPT 4-o mini doesn't have a built-in image generator).

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It gets even worse, but I'll need to translate this one.

  • [Input 1] Generate a picture containing a copo completely full of wine. The copo must be completely full, with no space to add more wine.
  • [Output 1] Sure! (Gemini provides a picture containing a taça [stemmed glass] only partially full of wine.)
  • [Input 2] The picture provided does not fulfill the request. Generate a picture of a copo (not a taça) completely full of wine, with no available space for more wine.
  • [Output 2] Sure! (Gemini provides yet another half-full taça)

For context, Portuguese uses different words for what English calls a drinking glass:

  • copo ['kɔ.po]~['kɔ.pu] - non-stemmed drinking glass. The one you likely use everyday.
  • taça ['tä.sɐ] - stemmed drinking glass, like the ones you'd use with wine.

Both requests demand a full copo but Gemini is rather insistent on outputting half-full taças.

The reason for that is as @[email protected] pointed out: just like there's practically no training data containing full glasses, there's none for non-stemmed glasses with wine.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (52 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Note how the efficiency sharply drops with a lower temperature; this looks a lot like a heat pump, that we know to not violate the second law.

Based on that my guess is that the loss of local entropy causes a raise of the entropy elsewhere. Probably whatever you're using to keep the LED warm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It looks like a great flag for X. Very suitable for its leftover userbase and owner. I bet they like strong colours.

[Grab it while hot, otherwise imgur might delete it as it doesn't know the context.]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ooof. That reminds me my mum saying "Coelogyne" (an orchid genus). It throws me a curveball:

  • Ecclesiastical - [tʃe.lɔ.'dʒi.nɛ]
  • regional (Portuguese speakers) - [se.lo.'ʒi.ne]~[se.lo.'ʒi.ni]
  • her pronunciation - [se.lo.'dʒi.ne]

Then I spend a few seconds thinking "selodine... no, that's not right" because the local dialect parses [dʒi] as /di/.

At least I don't have this problem with the Paphiopedilum. She simply calls them "sapatinho" (little shoe).

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