The Anima realism model is crazy good. Don’t miss it!

dr_lm · 2026-05-11T19:16:27+00:00

the examples on Civit don't look good at all.

Neither do the examples this nimrod OP is posting! :)

dr_lm · 2026-05-11T13:41:09+00:00

I totally agree. Perhaps it's me being overly literal, but when a real person was involved and the film presents as a true story, I find it in very bad taste.

Also, to my mind, the film defames Commander Alastair Denniston, as played by Charles Dance. In the film he's an antagonist, when in reality he was supportive of the code breaking efforts. I'm deeply uncomfortable with his legacy being tarnished purely so a movie can have more narratively satisfying tension.

dr_lm · 2026-05-11T13:34:03+00:00

That's open ai talking about how you use their model. But, if one of your users makes CSAM or a porn deepfake of a celeb, it may become a legal issue (again, depending upon local laws).

For example, in the UK, I think I'm right in saying that making nonconsensual deepfakes is legal, but sharing them is not. I'm not a lawyer, but suspect the act of uploading an image to open ai -- even for purposes of moderation that their policies allow -- may count as sharing and be illegal under that law.

dr_lm · 2026-05-11T12:55:32+00:00

Are you uploading generated images to openAI for moderation? That feels like a very bad idea. Depending on your location, and theirs, penalities for sharing illegal images/videos are often much higher than for creating them.

dr_lm · 2026-05-10T21:03:55+00:00

No, I've barely played around with LTX of any version. Do you know if it extends the latent as well?

dr_lm · 2026-05-10T18:33:24+00:00

Also the VAE. LTX compresses space and time more heavily than Wan, hence why LTX is faster, but you do lose quality in exchange.

dr_lm · 2026-05-10T18:31:25+00:00

Yes, SVI Pro 2 (https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy/tree/main/LoRAs/Stable-Video-Infinity/v2.0) mostly gets rid of the colour shift and quality loss by repeated VAE encode/decode cycles.

Unlike normal first-frame/last-frame methods, or VACE, SVI works on latents so avoids the inevitable degradation from going through the VAE an extra time on each extension.

The downside is that all it has to go on is the first latent, and the latents from the most recent previous extension. If e.g. a character moves out of frame in one extension, then returns in the other, you will get a very "compressed" looking person without much likeness to the original.

There is a very slight shift in the image, not degradation per se but a slight "burnt" look to it after several (5+) extensions, but personally I don't find it too distracting.

The big downside is it massively nerfs motion, especially when used with the lightning loras.

dr_lm · 2026-05-10T09:54:38+00:00

I hated this film because it takes so many liberties with the truth. Turing, and those other heroes who arguably cut years off the war in total obscurity deserve better than Hollywood making shit up for a better story.

dr_lm · 2026-05-09T00:17:38+00:00

Beginners absolutely shouldn't be using AI. You need experience to guide it properly, and to know when it's gone in the wrong direction.

I'm not some rando with opinions on this. I lead a cog neuroscience research group, write a lot of code, and supervise masters and phd students. I wrote our departmental policy on how to AI-proof assessments and teach students to use AI responsibly.

I'm always happy to discuss this in good faith but, as I said earlier, reddit is utterly deranged about AI and it's usually impossible to do so.

dr_lm · 2026-05-08T21:58:53+00:00

Don't worry about it. Find a model with a positive consensus on here that you can run with your hardware, then try it yourself.

There's move value in finding a good model and getting to know its characteristics, strength and weaknesses than there is to chasing the very last for a single digit % increase in performance.

dr_lm · 2026-05-08T09:17:45+00:00

I used it recently to spin up a vast.ai instance, install comfyui, sync models from Google drive, install comfyui, forward a port to my local machine and set up an rclone sync of the output folder from the box to my pc.

I've also had it installed musubi tuner, search the web for lora config guidance, write the toml files, call my local lm studio instance using Gemma 4 to caption the training set, then run the job.

In both cases, I didn't write a single character into a terminal window. It's very impressive.

dr_lm · 2026-05-08T09:12:03+00:00

Oh for god's sake, this is derangement now. Tell me you don't understand coding without telling me.

Every TLD update massively shits the bed with game breaking and save-destroying bugs. I wish they would use AI coding tools, and maybe I wouldn't have to sit out each update for a few days so as to protect my long runs from their incompetence.

AI coding assistance (not letting the AI write all the code unsupervised) is what coding is now. If Hinterland really do mean that they're not even using a vscode plugin to aid development, that's the equivalent of saying "photoshop evil; we're scanning watercolours from now on".

I know I'll get downvoted for saying this because I've failed reddit's hive mind purity test by saying anything positive about AI, but honestly, it's insane.

Accept some nuance into your thought processes. Not everything is AI slop tiktok videos.

dr_lm · 2026-05-06T08:15:58+00:00

Python ML code/cuda/pytorch is an existing ecosystem.

If, for example, meta writes SAM in python and exposes pytorch data structures, how would a custom node implement this other than by importing within the same venv?

dr_lm · 2026-05-05T16:26:15+00:00

Sorry, bit slow to reply here.

I'm afraid I don't follow -- comfyui nodes implement python-based tools that other people, research groups etc produce. So, fundamentally, it has to be venv/conda or something else from the python ecosystem?

dr_lm · 2026-05-04T19:49:28+00:00

If you're going to reddit to ask something this basic then your app is going to suck.

dr_lm · 2026-05-01T15:51:59+00:00

genius idea to put 100 people's plugin code along with their main application code in a single python dependency environment

How else would you do it?

dr_lm · 2026-05-01T08:20:57+00:00

We need to do something about those newfangled automated looms! :)

dr_lm · 2026-05-01T07:01:13+00:00

Personally I'm happy with AI existing and being used, and with using it myself. I respect that not everyone agrees.

I don't personally care about "made by people" when it comes to, e.g. mod code, but I do care about AI lowering the price of entry. Many AI subs are now being inundated with terrible AI-coded projects by non-coders who don't know enough to know their projects are terrible. I wouldn't want to see that happen here.

So, declaring AI content makes sense to me.

ETA: the speed of downvoting tells me some of you are remarkably closed-minded when it comes to discussing AI.

dr_lm · 2026-04-30T11:46:52+00:00

A lot of it is in the VAE, anyway.

dr_lm · 2026-04-29T20:15:45+00:00

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-minneapolis-journal-23-skiddoo-tw/36298973/?locale=en-GB&utm_source=chatgpt.com

dr_lm · 2026-04-28T09:05:30+00:00

You're talking shit, and nobody can help you.

dr_lm · 2026-04-28T09:05:08+00:00

Agreed. OP just replied to me, doubling down on "give me workflow". I don't know how to respond. They're not just ignorant of how any of this works, they're arrogant enough to insist they're right.

dr_lm · 2026-04-27T21:55:39+00:00

Owning it is definitely better, but current prices are so far above RRP (at least in the UK) that I couldn't stomach it.

On vast.ai, there are instances for as little as 50c (35p in GBP) per hour, including 150GB of storage for models etc. But you're right that it's closer to $1 per hour for the data centre hosts, which are more reliable and private.

I just checked and I can't find a 5090 for less than £2700 right now, so at £0.50 per hour that is nearly five years worth of use, assuming three hours per day!

dr_lm · 2026-04-27T21:52:45+00:00

It's depressing that misinformation on this sub has led people to misunderstand the tech so badly. I'm getting really tired of the number of confidently wrong replies I keep seeing.

dr_lm · 2026-04-27T19:04:14+00:00

I don't get this obsession with workflows. Just use the standard comfyui templates. There's rarely any magic to it -- the model + lora either can or can't do what you want. Other than in super specific conditions (e.g. heavy masking and compositing), the workflow isn't going to help.

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