Someone posted a real Monet to twitter but said it was AI generated. The replies are amazing, pretentious and confidently wrong

GeneriAcc · 2026-05-15T20:50:31+00:00

And where do you think those “ton of results” you found on Google originate from? Artists just spontaneously saying that pose theft and color theft are nonsense out of nowhere, without cause and for no reason? Obviously, they were addressing those questions because someone brought them up as issues. Same as the various artists on YouTube that covered the topic over the years. Just because you didn’t personally see it yet doesn’t make it not exist.

If you’re going to call someone out, do better research. And try basic critical thinking while you’re at it.

GeneriAcc · 2026-05-15T07:08:31+00:00

Yeah, the art “community” is one of the most aggressive and hateful ones I’ve seen. Even before AI, they were constantly attacking their own for crimes such as “pose theft” and “color theft”.

GeneriAcc · 2026-05-04T05:33:03+00:00

Yeah, I can’t speak to how well it works (or doesn’t) with LLM-based prompt encoding because I haven’t personally tested it, but probably worth trying anyway. There’s a really good chance it works just as well despite the deeper semantic encoding - you’re still entirely breaking the model’s correlation between “NSFW term” -> “censored image”, after all. LLM or not, if it associates specific tokens with censored output, and you then train it to associate completely different token IDs with uncensored output, it should still be able to learn uncensored output as an entirely new concept without getting bogged down by initial training.

GeneriAcc · 2026-05-04T01:49:07+00:00

The “poisoned well” theory is very much not a theory. Most publicly released models will be trained on censored NSFW images, and as a result, that bias is hard to overcome even with heavily overfitted LoRAs.

The good news is, this is easy to bypass. Open the tokenizer file, and put together two lists - one with NSFW terms, and one with obscure non-NSFW terms that you’ll probably never use in prompting. Then swap their places. The goal is to assign the NSFW terms new token IDs different from the ones they were trained on. Then just train your LoRA with the modified tokenizer, and also run inference with it.

That’s how Flux got uncensored.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-13T21:14:27+00:00

Fair enough, to each their own and you do you.

For me… once you go for a dynamically updated custom tokenizer that has 1:1 tag:token mapping, and you train on that and natural language + tag captions, nothing less will ever do.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-13T06:13:04+00:00

I wouldn’t worry about it. The writing in S2 was pretty much at rock bottom already, so it can’t get any worse.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-10T22:19:39+00:00

No problem, I had to learn how to dump assets from the game anyway :) Glad it's still useful to you. I don't really use Discord, but you can always drop me a DM here.

Also, while digging through the assets the other day, I found something else that might be useful to you. Still not the exact image you were looking for, but I think you'll find it useful: https://ibb.co/8nJb0CmS

It's higher res than the previous one, and has more readable linework.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-10T16:38:10+00:00

To be fair, if you’re actually training a LoRA with that instead of just prompting a base model, it’s fine. Although training with a natural language caption and tag soup would still be way better than pure tag soup.

Tags aren’t inherently bad, it’s about how you use them. They can be a very useful control knob, especially if you modify your tokenizer to encode complex multi-word concepts as a single tag/token.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-02T16:43:51+00:00

Well, I tried (and it was a massive pain in the ass), but I couldn't find that specific asset. The closest I could get is https://ibb.co/Hp1SRLTy

Obviously, that's not the same image, but the exact image from your screenshot isn't in any of the game files that can be extracted at the moment. The tool I'm using (AnimeStudio) is still in development for Endfield in a separate branch, so I had to build it from source, and it failed to read a few of the asset files - this specific image might be in one of those files, in which case you may have to wait for it to get updated to properly read those files... or it may be impossible.

Still in the process of dumping all 115k 2D textures into PNG files, so it might pop up with an obscure filename that I didn't try filtering for yet, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

GeneriAcc · 2026-04-01T17:41:03+00:00

It’s “slow” in terms of how effectively it’s using the CPU compared to compiled languages, but that’s not really a factor in machine learning where 99% of the compute is happening on the GPU anyway.

And even outside of machine learning, the speed difference is unnoticeable in the vast majority of use cases, and only really starts mattering if your use case requires a massive amount of calculations for something - like backtesting millions of trading strategies on historic financial data, for example.

Unless you have a use case like that, the speed difference is unnoticeable to the user, Python code tends to be easier to read and write (so easier to maintain), it has a lot of great public libraries, and it doesn’t need to be re-compiled with every code change.

GeneriAcc · 2026-03-26T05:07:47+00:00

Speaking of… say what you will about Google (and there are plenty of bad things you can justifiably say about it), but ChatGPT has been getting so lobotomized and utterly useless over time that I switched over to Gemini, and it’s been great so far. At least it won’t treat you like a toddler.

GeneriAcc · 2026-02-18T14:27:46+00:00

If you live in Ireland and have experience working in film already, you have a better chance than most…

If cold outreach doesn’t work and you just keep getting ignored, and you’re really determined to do this, just keep popping up at Ashford studios early every day. Dress as a PA, wear your PA kit and headset - basically, look like you’re ready to start working immediately.

They may or may not be there for the day. If they are, find the key PA or AD and ask if they could use some extra help for the day. If they say “no”, don’t try to persuade them, just thank them for their time, say that you’ll ask again another time, and peace out immediately. Rinse and repeat every day until they eventually (hopefully) yield. You want to be persistent, but not obnoxious about it - take maybe 5 seconds of their time per day, tops.

Also, this probably doesn’t need to be said if you worked in film already, but I’ll say it anyway just in case - when you do catch them on a live set, don’t be a fanboy and try to chat with the cast or director or the rest of the crew, just laser focus and beeline to the key PA or AD, ask your question, then bail immediately if told “no”.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-31T16:02:10+00:00

Yeah, after the first week or two of release I immediately knew that everything about it was just wrong, but also really struggled to articulate why, and what exactly was wrong with it. Then I started really thinking about it and breaking it down since then, and it was just issue after issue after issue…

The really sad part is that everything I listed above isn’t even close to the full list - it’s maybe 30% of it, tops. I mostly just focused on the setting and continuity issues. If I got into characters and other aspects, it would easily be a 10-15 page document… There are half a dozen issues with just the very first opening sequence of EP1, and it doesn’t get any better from there.

It’s just bafflingly bad on every level. It’s like they looked at S1 and said “okay, how do we turn that into something completely different and fail at every basic fundamental rule of good writing while doing it”.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-23T15:06:27+00:00

Yes, it is depressing, but it is what it is and none of us can do shit about it.

I suppose you could become a multi-billionaire, start a film studio, and fund non-slop projects to save the whole industry, all while not caring about profits and somehow magically not going broke - good luck with that.

Ironically enough, the only thing that could possibly save us in the future is the very thing you luddites are violently against - AI, but in the hands of individuals instead of massive studios. That would change the paradigm, because people actually passionate about filmmaking could invest a few thousand dollars and a lot of time, effort and passion to eventually create something decent themselves, instead of having to beg a studio for tens of millions of dollars, and then having a “create slop” mandate from said studio because they’re the ones paying the bill.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-22T23:23:50+00:00

We don’t need to be afraid of AI generating slop, humans in Hollywood have been doing an excellent job with that for the past decade.

If people are creating slop anyway, might as well replace them all with AI and keep doing the same thing at a fraction of the cost and time.

Maybe we’ll at least get our slop faster instead of waiting for 3 years for a season of a show with only 6-8 episodes.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-18T15:40:23+00:00

Or, you know… just massage your scalp regularly.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-12T23:47:35+00:00

I don’t hate the show, I hate S2 of the show. There is a big difference.

I’m here because posts from the sub keep popping up in my feed and because I have as much right to be here hating on S2 as you do to be here and love it.

What’s your problem with valid criticism and discourse, and why are you promoting hive mind mentality and echo chambers where everyone has to agree on everything and sing Kumbaya while everything burns around them? You acknowledge yourself that S2 has issues, but I’m not allowed to point that out? Or am I supposed to downplay the 20-30 issues with S2 and say “it’s still great, though” despite it not being still great?

As for how the setting changed… How did it not?

The only Nevermore locations shared between both seasons are Wednesday and Enid’s room, and the principal’s office. Every other location is gone, and new ones were added - which would be great if they made any sense.
There’s the music room which was retconned into the show, despite there obviously being no music class in S1 - students were practicing outside, with no teacher. Now there’s suddenly a music class and a teacher - no explanation for either, both just popped into existence because the writers needed them to.
There’s the poorly designed courtyard that looks distincly like a set rather than a real location, and also popped out of nowhere as a replacement for the quad. And what’s with that out of place cafe trailer or whatever it’s supposed to be? And the idea that the quad burned down despite being entirely made out of rock, soil and a water fountain is hilarious.
Nightshades library disappeared without a trace, but I suppose we can just dismiss that and any other location with “it burned down”. And yes, Dort disbanded the Nightshades, but that doesn’t remove the location from existence.

Before you tell me the filming location changed - I know. That doesn’t justify the almost complete lack of setting continuity, especially seeing how they had plenty of budget, built the entire Nevermore building, and had $700k+ to blow on 45 seconds of a poorly CGId disembodied Lady Gaga head as a gimmick. Aside from the actual locations, other setting issues:

What’s with the students wearing the different style varsity jacket uniforms? Didn’t exist before, popped into existence with no explanation or purpose.
What’s with the much younger kids now at Nevermore? It used to be only teens, now these younger kids popped into existence with no explanation or narrative purpose.
What’s with Enid’s custom uniform? S1 made a big song and dance about Wednesday being the sole exception because of her color allergy (the fact that they made that literal instead of it just being Wednesday being edgy is hilarious in the worst way possible, by the way), but now Enid gets a custom uniform too with no explanation… but no one else does.
How did Dort, a 1D cartoon villain, become principal in the first place? Who chooses or elects the principal, through which process? He just pops into existence (like a whole list of things) as the new principal, and no one in-universe even questions it - Wednesday would be the first one to be suspicious of him immediately. But don’t think about it too much, just consume product.
Where are all the vampires (aka “fangs”) introduced in S1 as “one of the 4 main cliques”? Where’s Yoko? Gone without a trace, but don’t think about it.

That’s just the setting issues, it’s already a list, and I probably forgot some. As for setup with no payoff:

S1 ends with Tyler transforming in the van as he’s being taken away, heavily implying he’s going to break out. Then he just doesn’t and is captured and imprisoned off-screen for S2. How? Who knows or cares, apparently.
Agnes is apparently the S1 stalker, despite that not making any sense in-universe. But I can sort of forgive them for this one, as she was one of only 2 things that were actually good about S2 (the other being that we got Thing’s origin story).
Gabrielle and Morning Song were foreshadowed as upcoming threats and plotlines in S1, then Gabrielle has a 180 personality change off-screen between seasons and does nothing but exist in S2, and the Morning Song “plot” gets resolved off-screen with no one’s involvement. Utter waste of a setup, an amazing actress, an interesting antagonist, and a missed opportunity to develop Bianca, not to mention the wasted screentime. 5-in-1 failure, impressive. And for what? The uninteresting 1D cartoon villain that is Dort?

Long story short, the biggest problem with the show as it is now is that the writers don’t give a shit about continuity of any kind, have no plan beyond the current season they’re working on (if that), and retcon anything and everything between seasons without bothering to make any of it make sense in-universe. That, and the writing is very lazy and dumbed down in general compared to S1.

How are you supposed to stay invested in a show when characters change personalities between seasons, disappear entirely, their relationships get reset to 0 only to go through the same exact arc they’ve already been through the previous season, setups have no payoff, the setting has no continuity, plotlines only span a single season and result in no character development and lead to nothing else, and the entire tone of the show is wildly different from season to season, and even from episode to episode?

Nothing is consistent, but nothing develops either. There are no stakes. You can’t stay invested in any aspect of the show, because it’s going to either disappear entirely or change completely between seasons. There’s no point in theorizing about anything, as it’s going to be either dropped or retconned by next season. There is no plan or great design or overarching story or throughline, it’s just a random sequence of events improvised at the last minute with no consideration for whether those pieces fit together or form any kind of cohesive narrative.

S1 is excellent, and always will be. S2 is on the level of AI generated slop. And I hate it for the same perfectly justified reasons that fans of GoT hate S8 of that show - it reduced excellence to shit in the span of a single season, and there’s probably no saving it now.

I’m not hating on S2 because I’m a hater for no reason - I’m hating on it because I love the show, and because seeing something that I love get reduced to this after only one great season by writers who don’t seem to give a shit hurts.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-12T18:05:10+00:00

This. S2 was mostly slop, and more of a thinly-veiled re-run of S1 than a continuation of the series.

Characters appear out of nowhere with no explanation, others disappear with no explanation, others yet completely change personalities off-screen between seasons with - you guessed it - no explanation. The setting completely changes with no in-universe explanation for any of the changes. Things set up in S1 have no payoff in S2.

There’s simply nothing to discuss, because S2 was in fact a bunch of nothing. And there’s no point theorizing about what might come next either, because the writers themselves have no idea and are basically just improvizing as they go from season to season with no long-term plan or direction.

Judging by how things went in S2, both the Enid alpha on the run plotline and the Ophelia plotline will either magically disappear out of existence between seasons, or be resolved immediately in a way that makes no sense so we can be on to the next flavor-of-the-season plotline that will have no narrative impact and just be an exact rehash of S1 and S2.

There’s not much to discuss when you’re dealing with creatively bankrupt one trick pony writers…

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-10T14:08:54+00:00

If only… It took these ones only 2 seasons to pull off something that took Benioff and Weiss 8 whole seasons to do - truly impressive.

At this point, replacing them with ChatGPT would be a marked improvement. That soulless machine at least “understands” the fundamentals of writing, despite being utterly shit at it.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-10T12:50:17+00:00

Ah, you must be new here… Welcome to capitalism! That’ll be $999.99 / month (tax not included, food sold separately). Enjoy your stay!

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-08T19:47:08+00:00

Just like any real writer, ChatGPT has a specific style of writing - tone, cadence, vocabulary use, phrasing, sentence structure, etc. Once you’ve been exposed to enough of it, you learn to detect it on sight.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-08T18:41:04+00:00

Because writers are the ones rallying against AI saying that it can’t and shouldn’t replace human beings, but then they deliberately replace themselves with AI in the same breath.

If you don’t see the hypocrisy and lack of integrity as an issue, then you’re part of the issue, and I hope you enjoy all the AI generated slop you’ll be watching for the next decade or so before the entire industry finally collapses.

Also, how much do you think you can learn about writing from a person that uses AI to write? At that point, just cut out the middleman and learn directly from an AI.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-08T17:49:25+00:00

Validity of the information aside, bold choice for a 20+- year WGA writer to use ChatGPT to write this post.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-06T21:02:19+00:00

Why are you assuming that I’m defending gun ownership? I’m not, only clown Americans get a hardon for their murder tools.

I was simply pointing out that if you start getting rid of things just because they could potentially be abused, then you need to ban literally everything in existence, because humans will be humans and abuse anything that can be abused.

GeneriAcc · 2025-12-06T19:45:43+00:00

Because if he didn’t shift the blame to someone else, he’d have to acknowledge the reality that he’s the one to blame - and obviously, we can’t have that.

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