{
  "script": [
    {
      "text": "I've spent the last few weeks trying to shrink this text-to-image bullshit so it doesn't need a fucking nuclear plant.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "W-wait, Rick, what are you even talking about? Like, compressing it? Isn't Stable Diffusion, like, the whole thing?",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    },
    {
      "text": "First, I compressed Stable Diffusion using LoRA and CPU offloading. It was a goddamn garbage fire.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "Oh geez, so... that first tiny version only used about one point five gigs of VRAM at like, 348 by 348? That's kinda small, right?",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    },
    {
      "text": "Small, sure, but the second attempt moved to generating images as discrete tokens instead of standard diffusion noise.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "Discrete tokens? But how do you make something detailed if you're not diffusing it? Isn't that just making it choppy?",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    },
    {
      "text": "We patched the holes with a refinement unit, fifteen million parameters to clean up the crap lost during the RQVE compression step, you dope.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wait, you trained that patch using L1 for sharpness and perceptual loss for texture? That\u2019s insane tweaking.",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    },
    {
      "text": "The second pipeline spat out one to two images per second, keeping VRAM under three gigs. That's the metric.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "So... even though it's not the prettiest one, it\u2019s actually faster and uses less power? That's... that's messed up.",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    },
    {
      "text": "It doesn't need to be pretty, Morty. It just has to not bankrupt civilization. Barely.",
      "character": "Rick Sanchez"
    },
    {
      "text": "So simpler, refinement-based models can actually be more practical than the super big deep ones? Right?",
      "character": "Morty Smith"
    }
  ]
}