Everyone Speaks Incel Now
After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.
How AI could help make society less selfish
The Care Bears taught a generation of kids that sharing is caring, but not everyone has carried this principle into adulthood. Researchers at Michigan State University have found a new angle to promote cooperation: artificial intelligence (AI). The results of this study, titled “Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents,” are …
Open source Virtual Try-On LoRA for Flux Klein 9b Edit, hyper precise
Built an open source LoRA for virtual clothing try-on on top of Flux Klein 9b Edit. https://huggingface.co/fal/flux-klein-9b-virtual-tryon-lora submitted by /u/Affectionate-Map1163 [link] [comments]
Introduction to Small Language Models: The Complete Guide for 2026
AI deployment is changing.
Closing the Gap Between Text and Speech Understanding in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) can be adapted to extend their text capabilities to speech inputs. However, these speech-adapted LLMs consistently underperform their text-based counterparts—and even cascaded pipelines—on language understanding tasks. We term this shortfall the text-speech understanding gap: the performance drop observed when a speech-adapted LLM processes spoken inputs relative to when the original text-based …
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Build an intelligent photo search using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Bedrock
Managing large photo collections presents significant challenges for organizations and individuals. Traditional approaches rely on manual tagging, basic metadata, and folder-based organization, which can become impractical when dealing with thousands of images containing multiple people and complex relationships. Intelligent photo search systems address these challenges by combining computer vision, graph databases, and natural language processing …
Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files
The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.
‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
When a human says an event is “probable” or “likely,” people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it’s not assessing the odds the way we do, my colleagues and I found.
Fine-tuning SDXL with childhood pictures → audio-reactive geometries – [Experiment]
After a deeply introspective and emotional journey, I fine-tuned SDXL using old family album pictures of my childhood [60], a delicate process that brought my younger self into dialogue with the present, an experience that turned out to be far more impactful than I had anticipated. What’s particularly interesting about the resulting visuals, is that …
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Beyond Accuracy: 5 Metrics That Actually Matter for AI Agents
AI agents , or autonomous systems powered by agentic AI, have reshaped the current landscape of AI systems and deployments.