Over the past year or so I’ve noticed that AI is increasingly being used to create thumbnails for YouTube videos. These thumbnails are outlandish in many ways, presumably to attract views to the videos. Let’s start by looking at channels that preview new tools. Here are some of the thumbnails that I’ve seen recently:
Here are some of the examples that I created with Local AI.
Looks like fake forestry tools are pretty easy to make.
Continue reading “AI Creating Fake YouTube Thumbnails”Note: While the Banner for this post, and the images were created by AI, the text was created, for better or worse solely by me.
As you may have, I’ve been watching the progress of AI to generate images and even videos for a couple of years now. I’ve not been interested in “signing up” for one of the services since it is pretty clear that it will run into a lot of money to do anything serious. However, I have a couple of extra computers with GPUs so I thought it would be time to try to run AI image generation locally.
I took a look at ComfyUI. It looks way too complex. While I’m familiar with the concept of connecting the boxes – from texture creation in Blender among other places – I’d rather just check some boxes and paste in a prompt.
After some looking around I found Pinokio.
Continue reading “Run AI Locally”The Final Fantasy Eleven game is having a Discount. For 30 days you can try the game for a discount if you are a Final Fantasy Fourteen player.
This makes no sense. In fact the service fees for FFXI make no sense.
Let’s compare:
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