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Yeah. Like I started watching the Stable Diffusion community to keep up to date on new developments and resources, and like 90% of the people involved should be locked up for a variety of reasons, and even the more innocent of them are mostly treatbox addicts marveling wide eyed at the tech and eagerly sharing whatever nonsense it spat out in much the same way as a child talking about a dream they had.

Still, I can't help but be impressed by the tech itself and how accessible the open source local models are - a midrange gaming rig can easily run them well, and even some AMD cards can handle it ok (with the caveat that some individual cards seem to just hard crash at random with ROCm, like my 6800, which has left me too anxious to do much with it since I've started feeling a spike of panic every time I hit generate and the fans start spinning up). It doesn't require some $5K+ card like commercial AIs do, and the strongest open source tools right now are absurd already.

I'm convinced that in the right hands it's got to be an amazing tool, and my cynical and pragmatic side says we should seize upon it and see what heights it can be taken to instead of just leaving it to be a vapid treatbox for the worst people alive.