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they mainly tested this for simple LoRAs/finetuning but this should be even more useful for folks wanting to do modality adapter retrofitting without losing timestep distillation arxiv.org/abs/2605.05204
- The paper argues ordinary supervised fine-tuning of step-distilled diffusion models compromises their inherent few-step inference capability.
- D-OPSD treats the model as both teacher, seeing text plus target-image information, and student, seeing only text features.
- The authors claim their approach lets models learn new concepts and styles without sacrificing original few-step capacity.
v good reporting www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
arxiv.org/abs/2601.18053 Neat! Ask for a random Shakespearean play before you give your prompt to improve output diversity.
Would guess gemini is more anguished. More seriously, arxiv.org/abs/2510.24797 hqas a table on this
axios had an article on how Build American AI is affiliated with that Leading the Future pac www.axios.com/2025/10/29/a...
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati... from Horace He
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not thinking LLMs are interesting is just a mix of tech illiteracy & millenial tech lash. It's honestly that simple
people who'd list "anti-AI" as part of their personality will typically put as much thought & due dilligence into who they boost & listen to as your boomer grandpa who has fox news playing 24/7
So many baby-brained takes on generative art by people who apparently exist in a world without poetry or conceptual art.
Lol literal openai pac psyop on twitter that gets such a fuckton of engagement posting what amounts to bluesky takes
People proclaiming on whether "AI" can be used to create novel information could instead take a deep breathe & simply ask any chess player or any academic studying protein folding
ugh i have finally reached "this was a much faster & more effective experience than google search" using an LLM. pain
millenials nodding along to a pr expert spreading misinfo re LLM determinism on podcasts is really just the circle of life. a lot of people in every generation will listen to their generations' huksters on talk radio eventually
mmm people have an elaborate way to prompt chatgpt to generate horror images but if you just politely ask it, it'll give you horror images. I guess the bizarre aspect is that vaguely asking it to make up a "maybe disturbing" image generated literal realistic gore for me immediately
why's the pope post about ai more than me
i had this fun notebook called "fight club" that ended up having the funniest reward hacking behaviour & I think that some API LLMs are finally good enough that I'll be at least printing out interesting jailbreaks for cheap if I run the notebook using them as judges
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