Don't tell the normies this! They're all shockingly easy to talk to or work with right now.
Another reason why they are skirting under the radar is that many of those kind of folks are, shall we say, somewhat unsavory. Consider Automatic1111 is also famous for racist rimworld mods, actively credits 4chan in the developers, and uses ho-chi-min as a github profile picture, meaning he's either Vietnamese or a deranged communist (or maybe even both!)
The reality is that a ton of AI innovation is happening on discord by people with anime profile pictures whose entire reason for their obsession with this stuff comes down to chasing dopamine rushes - and hardly anyone outside of the space knows about it!
First of all, sd-web-ui is not an example I was thinking of because it has a troublesome licensing history, the codebase is a hot mess, and it is insanely popular, among other things. It has no bushiness getting VC funding for many reasons, lol. But:
> also famous for racist rimworld mods
Not at all. Buzzy social media reported this, but... uh, the Rimworld modding community is hard to explain, but Automatic's "white only" mod isn't really white only, and isn't even a blip on the seedy modding radar. His modding style kinda resembles the GitHub SD project though.
> actively credits 4chan in the developers
So what?
> ho-chi-min as a github profile picture
It was his Steam profile before sd-web-ui, and so what if he is Vietnamese?
> The reality is that a ton of AI innovation is happening on discord by people with anime profile pictures whose entire reason for their obsession with this stuff comes down to chasing dopamine rushes - and hardly anyone outside of the space knows about it!
Yeah this is true, lol. Its not all fappers and anime waifu makers though, the "discord" push behind the UIs and augmentations is pretty diverse.
Another reason why they are skirting under the radar is that many of those kind of folks are, shall we say, somewhat unsavory. Consider Automatic1111 is also famous for racist rimworld mods, actively credits 4chan in the developers, and uses ho-chi-min as a github profile picture, meaning he's either Vietnamese or a deranged communist (or maybe even both!)
The reality is that a ton of AI innovation is happening on discord by people with anime profile pictures whose entire reason for their obsession with this stuff comes down to chasing dopamine rushes - and hardly anyone outside of the space knows about it!