this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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Slop machines have more in common with tracing than with learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5mZ_9CPY
You can hate the output, you can hate copying the IP, you can hate the people involved, but the process is nothing like tracing. It's closer to black fucking magic :)
It's not magic.
You're in a cult.
It's closer to black magic than tracing. It's really closer to sculpting. You take a machine, show it a few million pictures of dogs to teach it what dogs look like, then hand it a big block of white noise and ask it to show you a dog. It then carves away all the parts it doesn't think look like dog, repeats until the result doesn't change much and shows you the dog it essentially hallucinated out of the noise.
funny, I didn't feel like a kettle this morning.
anyway have a good one