The AI alignment problem is much easier than the cooperation alignment problem.
What you want is not a “pause AI” button, it is a “pause capitalism” button. You’ll need the second one to have the first one and you actually will never have either.
No one has the influence to do that. Not the POTUS, not the Chinese Premier, not the CEOs of the five biggest companies.
I wonder if anyone ever gives serious thought to this broader question or just keeps being a cog in the corporate wheel like everyone else.
I have since the 90s and I kept being told that what’s happening right now was impossible and that I was delusional.
Intention is the most important aspect of any implementation
Indeed, and I don’t see anyone, especially in the left wing, who tries to embrace this technology to try to build the post-labor society that we are all waiting for, all calling for, and that has been an utopia promised since the 19th century. Now that it is within our reach, there’s no one trying to give it a shape.
A while ago automatic111 was the way to go for easy image manipulation with diffusion models but people seem to have largely migrated to Comfy for, well anything, for better or worse.
I finally bit the bullet when I wanted to try krea2. And I recommend it. You will be doing things in less than 3 hours if you know what is a latent and a clip model. Start from a working workflow close to what you want to do and fiddle from there.
If you want models recommendation, you should post your VRAM budget.
For image editing there are basically two ways of doing it:
models especially trained o modify an image from a text prompt like qwen image. Some accept several image references and you can do things like “person from picture 1 in the setting from picture 2 and smoking a cigarette”
models that do inpainting, which is most image generation models, it is the tooling around them that does the fiddling: feed them the base image and the mask you want to fill, as well as a prompt and it will fill the mask with what you proposed.
Comfy has a masks editor and allows you easily to transform a pipeline into an app.
I kinda understand why everyone moved to there because the field is moving fast and it is much easier to write nodes for a new part that re-designing a whole workflow like automatic111 used to do.