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I'm more surprised that people think using AI automatically makes image generation not art. AI tooling can be quite complex, and it's much harder than most people think to produce consistent, compelling results, especially with local setups on modest hardware.

It's still there.

Isn't that typical of Nathan's work? To mess with the viewer.

NSO was sanctioned, so slightly higher than zero imo.

In this book, they explain that it's because this industry is de-regulated:

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Lauret Richard

I did the exact same project about a month ago with Opus4.8. No Asta required.

It's hard to get a $90k bounty from Google, even with Claude in hand, so we shouldn't be dismissive of that, but it is pretty annoying to read write-ups written entirely in LLM voice.

I just had claude code set it up for me and create some startup scripts. The longest part was the model download.

I've been playing with this on a 3090 and it FLIES. Does a pretty good job too on the tasks I've thrown at it (php code base security audits).

The first time I heard about Burning Man was at Defcon back in the early 00's. Some folks were telling me how they're going after the con and I asked, what's Burning Man? They told me how it was a sick festival in the desert where people race cars, shoot guns and set stuff on fire. By the time I made it in '09, it was tens of thousands of people, crawling with feds, and a strict 5mph limit was imposed on all vehicles. I had a great time though.

The abliterated qwen3.8 has been really good too

I remember when they promised to slow down and released a new model less than a week later.

I generate them using LLMs, but optimize them by manually removing chunks or rearranging the order of the instructions. It works well.

They're pushing their customers to their own competition by doing this.

the worry is that this will be interpreted as tampering and cary consequences.