This is why the best use of AI is making your own stuff. Retro Diffusion was originally for my own art pipeline. Most of the things I build using AI are for ME. Reduces my costs, saves me time, makes life more enjoyable. And I'm lucky to get some attention too :)

Plot twist anyone you tell outside of the tech bubble hates you for your interest unless you manage to go into extreme detail to explain how you're not actually selling your soul to take peoples jobs and end all life on the planet. In the trains analogy its like if everyone thought trains actively hunted humans and wildlife for sport, while also taking their buggy driver jobs (which most of society is based on). And you have to explain that no, trains are inanimate and don't hunt anything. They are just a more efficient and fast way to get from A -> B and actually the buggy drivers have incredibly transferable skills and could all make more money and be more fulfilled by working on trains or becoming independent high-value specialized buggy drivers.

In 1988, the Morris worm took out 10% of the Internet including taking out key national security and research assets. In 1992 the Michelangelo virus was expected to cause a digital apocalypse 99' the FBI reported that the Melissa virus compromised more than 300 companies and over one million accounts disrupted 00' and 01' we saw ILOVEYOU and CodeRed causing billions in economic damage. Since the creation of the Internet we had a constant stream of vulnerabilities impacting critical infrastructure, nationally sensitive resources, and causing billions in economic damage. In contrast, It really is remarkable how relatively few security significant events we've seen with AI despite all the effort and money trying to will it into existence. And relative lack of security sophistication from those developing it.

It's so insanely cool that someone took the time to write a paper about this! AI pixel art is evolving so fast, every couple weeks we add new capabilities, so having some grounded academic testing like this is amazing.

This is awesome. I don't even use these guys, but this is a classy move. Paying for what you use is always better than a sub, because you are the one who controls your spend, not some org with their projected return algos.

One of my favorite features of Retro Diffusion is the way you can use references- You can edit images directly, combine them, change styles, pretty much anything you want to do.

Another one of the awesome bespoke features of Retro Diffusion: Create one-shot spritesheets with a common theme, and get labeled split assets to use for game inventories. Unbeatable pixel art quality 😁

It's always funny to me when some competitor announces a pixel art feature they have, and it's just something Retro Diffusion has had for like 6 months. Been consistently ahead of the curve and I'm not even really trying... I just add things when they work.

The chat assistant is live on the site in beta! It's still got a lot of edge cases, and I'm working on helping it make better decisions, but man, it's fun to use. Give it a shot, send me any weirdness, can't wait to build this out more :)

Claudish is such a distinct dialect that I can instantly pick up on if someone used claude to help write their message/paper/script/document 🤣 Most of the time it's the "It's not just x, it's x + y (insert some flowery modifier language for the metaphor)".