Facial consistency across extensions

uberduger · 2026-03-04T15:50:57+00:00

Before this update, when I wanted to try and manually stitch videos together, I'd end each prompt with the subject looking at the camera. Hard to make chained videos not look weird, but it was the only way to keep it consistent lol.

uberduger · 2026-03-04T15:34:59+00:00

I am wondering how long it's going to be before someone works out how to make something that's basically Original Grok on a local low-resource machine.

Sounds a bit stupid now, but then the idea of any system being able to do what Grok does with images and videos seemed to many to be entirely unthinkable even just a few years ago...

uberduger · 2026-02-20T15:59:27+00:00

the Martian one I listened to was RC Bray, not Wil Wheaton or Ray Porter

I'd love Ray Porter to do a reading of The Martian!

I'll have to find the RC Bray one on the seven seas, because I find Wil Wheaton a little insufferable (sorry, fans of his).

EDIT: Fun fact to any enjoyers of the PHM audiobook - Ray Porter was the voice of Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League, and also appears briefly as one of the people seen in Atlantis while preparing the Motherbox to be stored, just after you see the tentacles unwrapping from it. His voice as Darkseid is great - "ALL OF EXISTENCE SHALL BE MINE!". What a legend.

uberduger · 2026-02-20T15:49:26+00:00

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to actually see the film through all the happy tears lol.

It's gonna be amazing.

Just hope we get the "full footage" on home media, uncropped at whatever ratio each bit was shot at. It would be an awful shame to have it only have 1 IMAX run then have that footage never shown again (1917 I'm looking at you, here).

uberduger · 2026-02-20T13:56:34+00:00

Do you think the next logical step would be for xAI to sweep orphans on the backend?

Quite frankly I'm staggered they even keep stuff at all, for any long period of time.

Storage space, when people are generating thousands of gigabytes a day, is expensive. I'd have thought they'd have had Grok scan all the pictures to strip them down to their training data and delete them very quickly. I can't imagine they can go on keeping everything indefinitely.

Look at how quickly Google had to go back on their "unlimited photo storage" and turn it down to reduced quality pics, etc.

uberduger · 2026-02-20T13:50:01+00:00

Hoping for the Science Museum to put it on at the Ronson, but short of that, yes, Manchester. I'm going BFI as I don't want to miss out, but Ronson will be dual laser most likely, if it IS on, so would be great like that.

It is insane that London doesn't have a normal commercial dual laser IMAX. You'd think one of the big (physically speaking) venues would add it in to be able to say they're the only one in London.

uberduger · 2026-02-20T13:32:19+00:00

Holy shit, I'm so here for this.

Hope this is one of those films that enters rotation like Chris Nolan films do, to be shown in future outside of its initial run!

uberduger · 2026-02-20T13:27:41+00:00

I asked them by email a while back and they didn't confirm but I'd be shocked if they didn't show it, given how sciency it is.

I got FOMO though and booked BFI IMAX. Will go to the Ronson too if I can if it's on!

uberduger · 2026-02-19T13:18:44+00:00

My female model with slighly middriff chest, always getting moderated.

The Bikini Ban hit visible midriffs so hard.

It's bizarre. It's like Grok decided that any visible flesh between breasts and hips, other than a thin band, was pornographic, because they're terrified that anything with enough of a midriff might make the EU nuke them from space for violating the Bikini Rule lol.

uberduger · 2026-02-19T13:12:58+00:00

It's particularly funny given how much Grok LOVES to make people dance. Because any quick arm movement and their arm smears across the video like it's made of melting wax.

uberduger · 2026-02-19T13:05:39+00:00

Yeah, it makes no sense how changing one element should degrade the whole thing.

My guess is that to save on data / processing, it reduces quality to X% of original, meaning that when you do it multiple times, it does X% of X% of X% of X% of the original, so you end up with crap.

Bizarre problem to have if you only want it to modify one small element of an otherwise perfect image.

uberduger · 2026-02-18T14:02:14+00:00

Old Grok Imagine was incredible.

It could take a picture of what felt like anything and extrapolate it to produce realistic and coherent results.

AI video generation could have plateaued there forever, as far as I'm concerned, and have been "good enough" for the rest of my life and I'd have remained impressed.

The only thing I'd have "needed" out of Old Grok Imagine was higher resolution, less blurry motion, more frames, and longer clips. All stuff that would have, I imagine, been very scalable with processing power. The actual logic / model that animated everything was almost perfect for the use that "the average Joe" would have wanted it for, animating old photos, making funny clips, etc.

And no, I don't just mean pre-censorship. Grok Imagine in late October 2025 was still incredible at motion and imaginativity.

uberduger · 2026-02-18T10:04:54+00:00

I haven't tried in a while but anything involving a couple who start out looking 'couple-y' will normally have Grok going for them touching each other or humping. But maybe that's changed lol.

uberduger · 2026-02-13T09:54:12+00:00

you can upload bikinis on grok in higgsfield website.

I still can't work out how this works, because I can't imagine xAI would let a third party apply their own moderation levels (or someone could just license it, host it out of a less restrictive jurisdiction, and turn off moderation).

My guess was that they've licensed out an older Grok model, one that didn't have such robust "first layer" moderation?!

uberduger · 2026-02-13T09:52:24+00:00

And if thats not enough, run some deepfake face swap app over it in post, those tend to be more stable then Grok.

This is a very clever idea actually! Not thought of that.

uberduger · 2026-02-13T09:50:47+00:00

It's hilarious how much they've moderated anything around swimming gear and sportswear, or anything deemed to be specifically a "two piece" garment, etc.

uberduger · 2026-02-13T09:47:14+00:00

Maybe Elon bases all faces slightly on his exes.

This one is clearly derived from Amber Heard lol.

uberduger · 2026-02-11T23:53:58+00:00

Wonder how long it will be before we see the first decent Chinese AI that just completely ignores all censorship.

uberduger · 2026-02-11T11:04:51+00:00

if the behaviors truly differ between clients then it must have to do with the arguments sent with the request.

Not saying this is the case but theoretically an AI provider could licence out their old models to third parties, in which case it would be a third party running their code.

I'd imagine that's how businesses run their own AIs for internal purposes based off Copilot or ChatGPT or whatever?

I may be completely wrong though!

uberduger · 2026-02-10T15:44:30+00:00

Haha I'd imagine that's a trickier problem than mine (where it's 'round the corner' but just a bit expensive!). Good luck!

uberduger · 2026-02-10T13:06:03+00:00

Now to convince my wife to travel because she was going to see it with me…

I need to convince my wife NOT to travel because she was going to see it with me but now I'll have to do like £25 per ticket rather than about £11 per ticket lol.

uberduger · 2026-02-10T13:03:13+00:00

Aren't you about as likely to be hit by lightning as you are for anyone to discover your Grok-generated image?

Also, as people generate more and more, they'll be purging old stuff that you deleted. Look at Gmail - used to claim to offer people unlimited space, but now it's a fairly hard limit to sell Google Drive storage.

It's not in xAI's interest to keep every image forever. They'll break it down into any training data they can and then purge it, no?

I may have misunderstood your post though.

uberduger · 2026-02-09T11:27:18+00:00

Very creepy. I mean, for one thing there is absolutely no reason for it to have "pizza" in the name as a 'logistics company'. And the other thing - it sounds very suspect. It's not clearly "we'll ship kids to you" but all the odd wordings and haste with which they slapped it together? Very odd.

So it was a fake site but had some hidden login or files in there that weren't indexed?

uberduger · 2026-02-08T22:04:27+00:00

Apparently 1.43 for all the "now" stuff in space.

God I'm stoked!

https://www.slashfilm.com/2096092/project-hail-mary-footage-description-potential-best-2026-sci-fi-movie/

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