To be completely fair, my life gets exceedingly complicated due to one variable and one variable only: Me. I'm the variable which complicates my life at seemingly each and every turn, without cessation. In this next episode of, "WTAF is Wrong with You?" I imagine at some point in the very near future, my wife coming across AI-rendered photos of her BFF standing in a datacenter wearing only a bikini. I also imagine my wife not looking upon this favorably. And while its true all of this is occurring only within my imagination right now, its a very real scenario, and the very real answer will sound like a complete fabrication designed to keep me out of trouble, but I assure you it is not. I have the pictures of ME in a bikini standing in that very same datacenter to prove it.
There I was, innocently rendering professional headshots of myself for LinkedIN with a brand new SDXL AI model when I grew bored. Hey, it happens. I thought it would be fun to render other people in the same scene. Makes perfect sense, right? But I'm short on SDXL models currently (I do have a couple more in the wings but they haven't been shot yet) so I used the only other model I do have - wife's BFF. Mind you, I didn't change the prompt at all, only the model. But instead of her, it rendered some dude. So I double-checked, and ran it again. Some dude again. This was a head scratcher. I've been operating under the assumption that sometimes the GUI "caches" model information, and it wasn't using mine specifically, but it also wasn't using hers. Turns out this would be incorrect, and goes all the way back to bias - AI's not mine.
I changed the model back to myself and it rendered flawlessly. I moved it once again to the BFF and it was some dude. Wondering aloud now, I decided to change the prompt to have her wear a bikini top instead of a polo, and sure enough, right there in the middle of the datacenter, she appeared - clad only in a bikini. To further stir the AI bias pot, she now had an arm thrown behind her head in a completely unacceptable professional LinkedIN pose. My suspicions partially confirmed, I changed the model back to myself but did NOT change the prompt, expecting to see myself again, but this time clad in that same bikini. Wrong again. There I was, sure, and yes, in a bikini, but gone was the male me; I was standing in that datacenter without the short hair, and without any facial hair whatsoever - the beard and mustache were gone (though one of the pictures does show a little chest hair between my suddenly ample bosom.) That's when I realized the random dude in the server room was the male version of my wife's BFF.
So what have we learned? Only women are allowed to wear bikinis, and only men are allowed to wear polos - according to AI.
And that's why I have pictures of my wife's BFF wearing a bikini on my computer.

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