Looking for a generative "AI" site that doesn't require registration - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 07:50:20 am
content: Let's say a guy wants to try out generative "AI", just to make crazy pictures because he finds this amusing.But this guy doesn't want to have to sign up to any site or service.He remembers back in the day when you could go to stablediffusion.com (I think that was the site), type in a prompt and up would pop a bunch of images. Hit "refresh" and you get a whole new batch.Every site I've found so far requires registration, most of them with Google, even if they're free.(Like they say: if the service is free, thenyou are the product.)I'd rather shoot myself in the head than sign up with Google.Any sites that fit the bill here?

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 08:44:55 am
content: I had to make a throwaway Microsoft account to use theirs. PITA, required a phone number.Ignoring the obvious privacy issues; they also do this as one of their methods of preventing bots. Mobile phone number ownership is what all platforms seem to now use as a method of outsourcing the difficulty of proving a user is a human individual. Many countries enforce ID checks and KYC for mobile phones these days so it's a perfect form of digital ID to piggyback.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 11:49:28 am
content: KYC = "know your customer"[This reply posted as a service by the TLA De-Obfuscation Brigade]

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 02:24:00 pm
content: Quote from: Whales on July 06, 2025, 08:44:55 amThe claim that phone numbers help prevent bots is a lie and misleading. For any well-funded bot farm, getting pull of verified phone numbers is easy and cheap - many services sell SMS-enabled numbers along with VPN and rotating IP from different sub-networks, making bots look like real users. Often, even telecommunications companies themselves are involved in selling blocks of phone numbers to bot farms operating on behalf of organized crime networks, which are typically overseen or controlled by intelligence agencies.In reality, phone numbers are used not to stop bots, but to track people. Being stable and often linked to verified identities (especially where SIM registration is mandatory), they enable building detailed user profiles by aggregating data from multiple services. These profiles end up on black markets and are sold to scammers, blackmailers and organized crime.When such data is collected and centralized by governments, it becomes a powerful tool for authoritarian fascism regimes. These regimes may collaborate with criminal networks to exploit individuals - for forced labor, extortion, organ trafficking, or military conscription. It helps to select and find victims for their biological traits, physical suitability, or simply for being expendable - to be used as slaves, cannon fodder, or decoys in armed conflicts.This highlights the serious risks of mass data collection, especially by governments. Despite public assurances, such data is actually not protected and among the first to leak, becoming a key resource for criminal exploitation.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 02:24:24 pm
content: Yes, this:https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generatorIt doesn't use very advanced models, so you'll typically get more oddities than with the more advanced ones, but it's still quite fun.Here's an example:

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 08:06:24 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 06, 2025, 02:24:24 pmThanks, just what the doctor ordered; take two attaboys out of petty cash.But now one more request: I'd like to be able to upload an image to the generator to serve as a starting point for its hallucinations. Any non-registration sites that do this? Perchance has a bunch of generators available, but I haven't found one that allows image uploading.

author: abeyer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2025, 10:56:20 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 06, 2025, 08:06:24 pmmy 2c is that kind of multimodal model is still far better to just use one of the big players. make a burner email and move on with your life.