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E621 isn’t even mentioned in the article, but of course it comes before pornhub in the title on HN X3

by coldnose 3y ago

userbinator 3y ago
I'm perplexed that someone would name a pornographic site with the same name as a very popular food additive.
- sdflhasjd 3y ago
  E621 - Monosodium glutamate (MSG), Flavour enhancer.
- itishappy 3y ago
  Great, now I am too. Thanks. Forgive me ad-sense recommendations, but I'm going in. Looks like it's unconfirmed but likely it was specifically named for monosodium glutamate. "This is where we keep the tasty content." https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/E621 https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/E621 https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/e621/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/e621/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/e621 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/e621 (Edit: Apparently there's a sister site called E926 to share SFW content. E926 is yet another food additive (Chlorine Dioxide) which is used to bleach food for a cleaner appearance.)
falcor84 3y ago
As someone who considers himself a relatively informed netizen, I hadn't even heard of e621.net until now, and I don't know whether I should be proud or ashamed of that.
- Gigachad 3y ago
  E621 is probably the best porn site on the internet tbh. I’ve never seen a site so well organised and searchable.
  - bluefinity 3y ago
    [flagged]
  - dymk 3y ago
    It's an incredible source of tagged training data - meticulously detailed and hand maintained
    - brucethemoose2 3y ago
      There's in fact a Stable Diffusion model trained on most of e621. Uh not sure what HN's linking rules are, but look up Furtastic. Though I understand and respect furrydom, I'm not a furry... But in its niche of generating anthropomorphic people, I still find the model to be incredible. Its got to be one of the most extensively trained, tagged and coherent SD 1.5 finetunes out there, which doesn't even surprise me TBH.
      - Gigachad 3y ago
        I'm not usually impressed by generated images. But the furry models are astounding. Right now my best signal for something being AI is that it's incredibly detailed by doesn't have a signature.
        brucethemoose2 3y ago
        Yeah. As a seperate note, I saw another HNer blog post specifically complain about AI generated furry art as a destroyer of talented furry artists... I get the point, but still have mixed feelings. If some AI is so incredible at an artistic niche (not just furry), isn't that amazing? If artists are not economically free to pursue new styles and representations the AI doesn't "know," I feel thats a larger problem with society and art platforms, not AI specifically.
        Gigachad 3y ago
        I don't think it's as simple as just exploring new styles. AI has gone from generating unrecognizable crap to stunning digital art within a year. And it's not clear how much further it will go. If you are a digital artist who makes their entire income on what was once a very secure job of drawing furry art. You'd be terrified right now. The artists are still quite a way ahead of the AI stuff, but for how long? I think the most likely outcome is that people stop drawing manually and either switch to making physical products like clothing and fursuits. Or they make use of the generative tools to create much more elaborate art. Perhaps one person pumping out a full comic in the time that would have taken 10 people. It's still a very scary and uncertain time when peoples incomes are on the line and decades of hard earned skill is at risk of becoming worthless.
morkalork 3y ago
And here I was hoping some poor intern at Fox had visited such a site and had to explain what it was to their superiors
lilboiluvr69 3y ago
It's because I'm a furry and it's the only 'porn site' (not all the art is even explicit) I care about. And Inkbunny too I guess.

E621 isn’t even mentioned in the article, but of course it comes before pornhub in the title on HN X3

userbinator 3y ago

I'm perplexed that someone would name a pornographic site with the same name as a very popular food additive.

sdflhasjd 3y ago
E621 - Monosodium glutamate (MSG), Flavour enhancer.
itishappy 3y ago
Great, now I am too. Thanks. Forgive me ad-sense recommendations, but I'm going in. Looks like it's unconfirmed but likely it was specifically named for monosodium glutamate. "This is where we keep the tasty content." https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/E621 https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/E621 https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/e621/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/e621/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/e621 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/e621 (Edit: Apparently there's a sister site called E926 to share SFW content. E926 is yet another food additive (Chlorine Dioxide) which is used to bleach food for a cleaner appearance.)

falcor84 3y ago

As someone who considers himself a relatively informed netizen, I hadn't even heard of e621.net until now, and I don't know whether I should be proud or ashamed of that.

Gigachad 3y ago
E621 is probably the best porn site on the internet tbh. I’ve never seen a site so well organised and searchable.
- bluefinity 3y ago
  [flagged]
- dymk 3y ago
  It's an incredible source of tagged training data - meticulously detailed and hand maintained
  - brucethemoose2 3y ago
    There's in fact a Stable Diffusion model trained on most of e621. Uh not sure what HN's linking rules are, but look up Furtastic. Though I understand and respect furrydom, I'm not a furry... But in its niche of generating anthropomorphic people, I still find the model to be incredible. Its got to be one of the most extensively trained, tagged and coherent SD 1.5 finetunes out there, which doesn't even surprise me TBH.
    - Gigachad 3y ago
      I'm not usually impressed by generated images. But the furry models are astounding. Right now my best signal for something being AI is that it's incredibly detailed by doesn't have a signature.
      - brucethemoose2 3y ago
        Yeah. As a seperate note, I saw another HNer blog post specifically complain about AI generated furry art as a destroyer of talented furry artists... I get the point, but still have mixed feelings. If some AI is so incredible at an artistic niche (not just furry), isn't that amazing? If artists are not economically free to pursue new styles and representations the AI doesn't "know," I feel thats a larger problem with society and art platforms, not AI specifically.
        Gigachad 3y ago
        I don't think it's as simple as just exploring new styles. AI has gone from generating unrecognizable crap to stunning digital art within a year. And it's not clear how much further it will go. If you are a digital artist who makes their entire income on what was once a very secure job of drawing furry art. You'd be terrified right now. The artists are still quite a way ahead of the AI stuff, but for how long? I think the most likely outcome is that people stop drawing manually and either switch to making physical products like clothing and fursuits. Or they make use of the generative tools to create much more elaborate art. Perhaps one person pumping out a full comic in the time that would have taken 10 people. It's still a very scary and uncertain time when peoples incomes are on the line and decades of hard earned skill is at risk of becoming worthless.

morkalork 3y ago

And here I was hoping some poor intern at Fox had visited such a site and had to explain what it was to their superiors

lilboiluvr69 3y ago

It's because I'm a furry and it's the only 'porn site' (not all the art is even explicit) I care about. And Inkbunny too I guess.