u/Alchemist42

From the sounds of it, he doesn’t need ai. He wants to use it, maybe because it’s fun and enjoyable, maybe it’s faster, or any of a million reasons. Why does it matter?

LTX 2.5 can use all the same LoRAs as 2.3 (or even 2.0) so the lack of 2.5-specific ones isn't too big a deal really. Everyone has already said that H3 is great, and it is, but it crashes my machine whenever I run it, so I have been using LTX 2.5 a lot and it's great. It can do everything that 2.3 could do, but faster, and it uses less memory. If they only had a reference to video model, it would be perfect. I haven't had too much luck with the Ingredients LoRA nor the MSR one, and those are the only real consistency options past short clips of I2V before it has a chance to hallucinate much.

But it does lipsync really well. And the prompt adherence is better than 2.3 was. It is a solid upgrade, and a worthy one for a .2 point update. If it was released as LTX 3, then it would be a disappointment. But as an incremental update, it is perfect.

You need to connect the "lora_stack" output of EasyLoraSwitcher to the "loras" input of Load Loras

If it is the node I think it is, the LoRA input is a dropdown list of all the LoRAs in the models/loras folder. You would choose whichever LoRA you are adding to the chain. And note that the Model and Clip inputs are optional, so you only need to add the modes chain or the clip chain - or both.

Banned for banning behaviour

I'll give you a bit of forewarning. Adobe's FireFly is pathetic. I would not put my reputation on the line with the expectation of using FireFly to make good looking videos. The Adobe models are useless and the more expensive 3rd party models (like Kling) are watered down from the real versions with absurd restrictions on length of video, screen resolution, added Elements, etc.

As someone already mentioned the only way you are going to be able to do 20 minute videos affordably is to use a local open weight model and open source software, like ComfyUI. This assumes that you have access to a fairly powerful computer with a fancy video card. I'm able to put out 1 6 minute videos about once in 3 weeks using mostly that. I have to set it up to render overnight to get everything done in a timely fashion which takes some level of OCD.

If you don't have access to a computer that can run these models quickly enough to get the clips you want, then you are stuck with scouring the web for sites that offer free credits that refill daily or at least inexpensive subscriptions. Google Flow used to be very good for both of those things, but recently it has fallen off a cliff faster than Wile E. Coyote.

A few people have mentioned Claude. I have seen in the past few weeks some really good stylized animations made by Claude without needing to use fancy diffusion models, just making the vector art and animating it. I suspect there has to be a gotcha somewhere in there, but from what I've seen it looks promising.

What about hairy palms? Does that happen to everyone or just me?

Right? And Reddit particularly has been very public and transparent about how they use all of our posts to train AI models. So the very act of complaining about it on Reddit is doing what they say they want to stop.

Someone did this to me a few months ago. It was kind of funny. They said that AI is incapable of making anything yadda yadda no soul blah blah next token predictor etc. I gave them a link to my most recent at the time video and they went through it to pick out every little flaw as if that proves anything. I mean he made this exhaustive list of "Scene 2 she is wearing only one earring and scene 12 she has two". He didn't like one editing thing I did with showing different things in side by side panels (which I did in After Effects manually) and then had to point out each instance of this as an AI problem. One person's lips appeared slightly fuller in a closeup shot while flatter in a far away shot in the background blurred by a bokeh effect. Some were in shots that were shown for less than a second, and no one watching at full speed could see.

I am working off a $20/video budget for a personal non-commercial production with an anticipated audience of maybe 20, so yes, there will be inconsistencies and I am willing to accept "good enough" when "perfect" would simply take too long or throw me over budget. Any movie or video with an actual budget could hire a consistency checker and any problematic scenes can be redone or changed. None of it is an AI-specific issue, in fact he could have called into question my skill as an editor, but he even passed over the easy insults because he was just unwilling to accept that anything which involved AI in any way could have any redeeming characteristics, and that was AIs fault. Not one of his comments were "the music sucks" or "the storyline makes no sense" or anything substantive.

They must have sat on my youtube page for an hour - when the video was 4 minutes - to identify and record all these things, fast forwarding, rewinding, replaying the whole time. Youtube sees that as "engagement", so he did my very small channel a really good deed. My watch time soared and my click count increased more than any other day previous... he must have loaded the page up multiple times.

His "critique" was largely useless and summarily ignored, but I get a good giggle about how he thought he was insulting me or something and unknowingly told Youtube that the video was so much more engaging.

Let me adjust your sentence for you. Google flow is hell for anyone trying to make content.

Or even better, Google flow is hell.

That’s about right.

For governmental and corporate use, accessibility standards are a legal requirement. It’s not just people “ wasting their time “ putting in a 3 word description in alt text. Everyone should do it and many people must. Why is it wasted effort to make it so screen readers work? It takes more time to make a site work on edge, Firefox, chrome, and safari. And every web dev does that… at least the good ones.

I completely agree with pretty much all of that. There are much more important things to be concerned with - particularly with respect to the technology and how is can be (and is being) misused by those in power. I honestly think that pretty much everyone (apart from the inevitable trolls on both sides) wants the same things on the big issues. No deepfakes, no fraud, no taking advantage of people, no more monitoring, no Big Brother. It's just that some folks, mostly kids who can't even vote yet, seem to get their panties in a bunch if someone uses terms like artist and musician in a way they don't approve of.

I use local models and ones that are trained on royalty free or licensed media. I have never tried to pass anything I made with AI as being anything but exactly what it is. It would be nice to go a day without someone calling me a thief or tell me how much water I'm destroying. And if I have one more person go onto my Youtube channel just to downvote everything, not listen to the songs, and tell my how terrible the things they didn't hear are, I might just implode. Youtube's analytics are pretty interesting. When I have an hour that shows 17 views, 17 downvotes, and 5 seconds watched, it's hard not to see what is going on.

The whole concept of "anti"-anything is that you are against something. "Pro"-anything just means you like something. People who are happy doing their thing don't go off on people until they have been attacked verbally or otherwise. Perhaps I can speak only for myself, but I would never have even thought that there was this whole divide until random people who I have never communicated with came at me.

And I never said every anti does anything. I realize that there are differences between people even if they are in the same club. What I did say, or rather what I strenuously implied, was that when one of those who do go off on us because they disapprove of the software we use, we answer in kind.

Yes, probably there have been some overreach, and people who never said a bad thing about users of AI got lumped together. And I dare say that it is a definite capital T Truth that there are antis who do go off starting shit with random people. No implication there. Not all. But there are rather a lot. But the people who did it were very likely only doing it because someone in that club started it with them for (in our opinion) absolutely no fucking reason. And when the other ones, the good antis if you will, don't try to rein them in, but instead just upvote and cheer them on, well, that is telling.

By way of example, a few weeks ago some asshole went and scraped the site of artists who specifically didn't want to be scraped. I and others berated the shit out of him, as that is just a mean thing to do, and he just did it for the lols. He did not get the cheering reception that I think he expected. But yet when I go and look at the anti posts that say that everyone should kill all pros, they are upvoted highly and the responses are all "hell yeah, those fucks don't deserve to live".

It is a sad fact of life that you will get treated differently due to the company you keep. It isn't fair and it isn't right. But it is so. And you choose to associate yourself with that crowd. The corollary is that you might end up taking some splashback from they who absolutely deserve what they are given.

Excellent! Thanks. It was a fun one to make.

Well, to be fair, they are only mostly harmless.

oh, you beat me. I dig it.

This is the sloppiest response to the comment slop of the post slop.

The only people who say they are against human made art are trollls. People who are pro ai certainly have no problem with human made art, particularly since we are human and we make art. There have been plenty of stupid memes passing around the antiai subs saying things about people who hate human art. But no one actually said those things, at least no one who wasn't just trying to get a rise out of you. Just like we try not to blame the entire anti-ai community for the actions of a few loudmouth trolls, you should really do the same.

Thanks!

If 2 years ago, cars were hand cranked, and this year, they could fly, then it would be safe to assume that within a few years most momentum related things that could conceivably be done by something with the mass of a car, then yes. It would. That is the sort of speed of improvement we are seeing with diffusion models. Two years ago, Will Smith couldn't eat spaghetti. Now, he can do it while driving a flying car.

The people releasing abliterated models aren't subsidized - they aren't doing it for money. They aren't being paid. They tend to be idealists (with an anarchistic bent) and will be doing it regardless of what Big Brother has to say about. It It can be made illegal, then it'll just move to the darknet. The corpos can charge what they want or try to play cat and mouse with security and hack-proofing, but we all know how well that works with anti-piracy efforts, so I feel confident enough that I'll be able to get my fix whenever I need it.

ComfyUI might not be terribly user friendly, and it might crash and OOM more often than I'd think is optimal, but it is definitely that good now. And there is no reason to think that it won't continue getting better and even if they do suddenly start charging for it, someone will branch the open source repo and keep building. Maybe even me.

As said by every addict ever: I am in control of my addiction. It doesn't control me.

But seriously, if it's free, sure I'll use an upgrade. If not, I am perfectly satisfied with what I have and if nothing improves over what I have right now, I can be satisfied for as long as I plan on living (if the crack doesn't get me first)

https://preview.redd.it/2i7fw0831exh1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f914cf3d7d3bf7df04b7181a6abc0063e39777b

Link - https://suno.com/s/cE1jBEAMUSjeAXxE

Title - Emergency!

Style - Post-punk gothcore fused with dark cabaret and hot swing with subgenre: Exotica; snarling low brass, baritone sax flourishes, two-string slide bass bending long notes, brushed snare and cymbal accents, sinister piano stabs; lurching swung pulse with dramatic stop-start transitions; theatrical raspy-to-silky baritone, urgent phrasing, close dry lead opening into a grand shadowy chorus; raw dark-room mix with punchy low end,

Running Time - 4:46

Description - A scat infused dark swing and cabaret style jazz duet involving a saxophone setting the house on fire, with instruments being a slide bass, baritone sax, alto sax, and snare drums. And just the right touch of chaos.

Lyrics -

[Intro]
[vocal scat]
dedodededebabadoo datititidap bapapbodidiboo zebosobop
mordedeedemo dibebeedibebiddydibbitibopo

[Verse 1]
The red phone rings in the velvet room
A little too late, a little too soon
Your face is going pale
And then you say, “I’m fine,” like a fire alarm bell

[Pre-Chorus]
One hand on the latch, one hand on your chest
You call it control; I call it a test

[Chorus]
Emergency - come closer, don’t look away
Emergency - there’s no safe word left to say
The curtains catch, the clock runs wild
You’re still the one who called me, child
Emergency - stay till the room turns still
Emergency - say you will, this is not a drill

[vocal scat]
zepideedlayo, pededeplintolopendoareredabahawhuuhuwaooh badoobooklu badadabetobolooobadoo badolloaborotu

Given that ai can do these impressive things, why would you think that it will never be able to equal them in other uses?

And happy cake day!