Sad but understandable, you will be missed! Good luck with your other endeavours!

For reference www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDCI...

On the other hand, can't even buy a book anymore without checking if the illustrations are legit.

I don't want to simp for this guy too much, but he does seem concerned with fairness and openness and the potential for misuse (www.nyas.org/ideas-insigh...)

I understand completely. Most of the hype is guff and people sticking feathers up their behinds.

Diffusion and other encoder-decoder networks use CNN's extensively, which he basically made feasible in the 80's. He even won a Turing award for it.

I don't exactly agree with him here either, but he really earned that title.

Happy holidays! I am looking forward to some more Arte-Factuals!

And here is my tribute illustration for my favorite game.
Art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/domi...