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adnanazadsg
I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?
dylanwenzlau
Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!
dylanwenzlau
Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...
speeq
I noticed that imgflip is using Cloudflare. Just curious - if you're willing to share this information - what are your traffic levels and hosting costs like? Does hosting a large percentage of static asset require a Cloudflare enterprise contract? Cheers
dylanwenzlau
When Imgflip moved to Cloudflare they did require an enterprise contract if we would use Cloudflare as a CDN (lots of static assets, in our case .jpg and .gif). The contract was a constant price per month as opposed to per-GB like classic CDNs. It's possible contracts are different now though Imgflip has been there a while.
nautical
TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.
Vaskivo
Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!
muzani
I think AI is good for things like photos, where there's a lot of tolerance for minor errors. And really bad for anything with text, where there's very low error tolerance. Even a misplaced aprostrophe triggers a reaction from people. A few extra moles on a person's face, or crooked smile is fine.
crazygorilla
It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!
reijndael
I think the text would make much more sense if this was a word-level prediction instead of character-level. Anyway it's still great and made me laugh :)