Grok's NSFW Chatbot is Great, Flux via Pinokio, and Adidas Uses AI for Ads

A few news and tools you can use in the world of artificial intelligence

Aug 16, 2024

Morning y’all!

It’s been quite a week in the world of AI and ML and there are times where it’s hard to catch up! But this (very) small newsletter and community I’m growing here helps me curate the things that I not only find interesting but useful. Focus, friends!

Now let’s jump into it! I hope you have a wonderful weekend and get some rest!

Claude has shared a prompt caching for models which allows developers to cache frequently used content and context, significantly reducing costs and latency.

Together AI shared a guide on how to operate large GPU clusters for model training. It’s a bit of a read but worth a bookmark if you’re headed down this path.

OpenResearcher shares an open source platform that’s goal is to help researchers research. Go figure.

Folks are losing their minds that Grok’s chatbot is able to effectively create “violent” and offensive, NSFW material. The problem with this perspective is that it’s entirely misguided since this is a significant advancement, not a step backward.

The free and open web that we love and use was built on the opportunity to do anything you wanted with it with zero censorship. As a cypherpunk, I believe in this to my core and so I’m personally excited that a public model is allowing people to be truly free with their creations and work instead of being policed.

A few friends of mine pinged me about this and here’s what I said:

Long live the open web.

Yesterday I shared a few images that I made via Flux and I also discovered that pinokio has integrated it on most operating systems using ComfyUI!

Check it out here. Super-easy to install and get booted up! It’s resource-hungry but that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Free and immediately useful for anyone!

Apparently this was all done via AI and I’m not unimpressed. The fidelity is just good enough for most normies to not know that it’s generated. The future is here, just not equally distributed for real.

Apparently this interview with Eric Schmidt was taken down because of some comments he made about remote work and stealing content. I understand the offense but why force a takedown? Probably because Eric spoke truth that no one at Google wanted to be public. Whoops. Uploading here so we all have a copy.

Oh? A collection of curated tutorials on how to use AI? Sweet.

Email templates via AI. Might be useful.

If you trust and love Reddit then Gigabrain might be something you’d appreciate and use! It scans billions of discussions (and other online communities) for answers.

ToonTalk is a macOS app that is “friendly” for children. I have so many questions but most of them are obvious, like privacy, security, and content.

Manaflow is an AI tool to help folks with repetitive tasks and any office work that uses tables. Boring? Yeah, but, I can see more of these tools being used more often.

I like how succinct this is: AI has made things once impossible, hard. Not a panacea or something that will replace things entirely, at least not today.