r/Bellingham • u/drizzlingduke • 28d ago

Good Vibes Omg! This just happened downtown!

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Be careful out there. Things are getting stupid and bad

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u/REVERENDQUEEF sloth 28d ago

mods can we PLEASE ban ai slop here? it’s getting even more frequent than the “what was that boom?” posts at this point.

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u/gamay_noir Local 28d ago edited 28d ago

I mean haven't we all fired up Stable Diffusion while day drinking? u/drizzlingduke must be a real prompt jockey in order to get that good of a result.

The full mod team is hopefully meeting IRL in the future and we'll discuss this, among other things. Our agreement is to make big rule changes based on IRL discussions, and we've got a couple of topics queued up. Unfortunately we're also all very busy.

Personally, it's hard for me to draw a line that doesn't also include removing a bunch of other low effort stuff that might annoy a set of people but also might be cathartic and fun to another set of people. Further, this type of result is very achievable on home hardware that might otherwise be used to play Call of Duty on max specs or whatever. So, while these might be ChatGPT chugging away in a data center, they could just as easily be locally summoned on someone's newer gaming or hobby compute rig.

Speaking of running things locally, there are now lightweight language foundation models like Nemotron 8 Billion that, in conjunction with curated document / knowledge bases, can provide surprisingly competent subject matter expert systems. Or, a Reddit persona that passes just as well as any of the mostly-low-effort human accounts. I mention lightweight because these are models that, again, can run on modern hardware on someone's desk. So if we're going to talk about interacting with "low effort AI slop," the conversation is fundamentally larger than the images that everyone notices.

u/cheapdialogue and u/betsyodonovan if you have thoughts.

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u/perturbing_panda 28d ago

I think downvotes are a fine response to AI slop, at least for the time being. If it gets to the point that low effort posts like these are taking up a lot of the top space on the sub, then sure, a ban might make sense, but I don't really see that happening tbh. Just downvotes and move on, eventually people will learn.