Like it or not, 4chan /pol/ and these days especially /g/ punch far above their weight in terms of having the “inside scoop” on things. A lot of AI research is

Like it or not, 4chan /pol/ and these days especially /g/ punch far above their weight in terms of having the “inside scoop” on things. A lot of AI research is being done on general threads on /g/ by real published academics who don’t want their names associated with making Waifu hentai. Without /g/ there’s no automatic1111 or comfyUI, and that would mean that diffusion models wouldn’t have taken off /pol/ is low quality, but it’s existence is probably good for the world.