wan2.1 playtime
29/03/2025
Just heard of Alibaba’s latest model, and it’s very slick, and quite lightweight!Here’s a sample of what I’ve been playing with today, really happy with the early attempts 🙂
These AI chips… they’re gettin’ faster every damn day. It’s like they’re in a race… a race to see who can make the most money off my anxieties. They’re buildin’ these things bigger and faster so they can track my every move online. Every click, every search, every damn time I look at a picture of a cheeseburger. They know. They know.
Pyramid Flow
10/12/2024
I’ve been playing with a couple of locally installed image generation models, having heaps of fun 🙂My journey began with Stable Diffusion, and working through the multitude of available models, and loras, I was quite happy with the results… until I found Pyramid Flow! I really should document my journey, challenges, tools and methods, but for now here’s a short video I knocked together
Cyberpunk Haiku
02/08/2024
Sticking with the William Gibson theme, like I deviate from this theme much; it does seem to be my Lorem ipsum I had Llama 3.1 8B write haiku (not sure if this is the correct grammar for multiple?) for each chapter of the Sprawl Trilogy Neuromancer Chapter 1 In virtual space Case seeks to find his way out Of this digital hell Chapter 2 Armitage speaks low Whispers secrets, danger…
Local LLM’s and image generation
02/08/2024
I’m really very impressed, and surprised, at how easy it is to install GPT models on a local machine with GPT4All, plus the bonus of Stable Diffusion After not having any success with setting up a GPT chat bot on a Raspberry PI 3, and even found I couldn’t do it on an old Lenovo T510, I decided to try on my Linux box, and was blown away by the…
Too long without posts 3 things on my mind; orca, Starfield, Local Hosted GPT 🙂 Orca Few weeks ago I wondered into the living room & spotted the dark shapes bobbing through the inner harbour that I now recognise as orca! Picking up the binoculars confirmed this. I jumped in the car, and headed down to the local wharf to await their arrival… but they decided not to make it…
Goodness gracious me, have you heard about this Gran Turismo Sophy business? You won’t believe it! It’s not a human, mind you, but a bona fide artificial intelligence. A racing computer with a brain, if you will! Now, I’ve always been a believer that racing’s about flesh and blood, instinct and raw talent forged in the heat of the moment. But this Sophy… she’s got me rethinking things, I must…
the thrilling promise of possibilities mixed with the stomach-churning fear of the unknown.