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18 pointsdylanwenzlau12 comments

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

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

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.

First one I got was pretty good - https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8

After that it was all gibberish :/

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 :)

I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?

Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!

It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!

TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.

I actually really like some of them, trying the different formats. They subvert my expectations.

https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn

They remind me of the anti-joke Louis CK's daughter came up with:

> > Who didn't let the Gorilla into the ballet? > Just the people who are in charge of that decision.

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.

Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!

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