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I shipped a free AI-art site with a flawed LoRA and ran a 75-image ablation to prove it

DEV Community·Yuka Kust·27 days ago
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TL;DR. I built pinock.io — an endless feed of AI-generated animals in 1960s Soviet matchbox poster style. Free, no signup, no watermark. Under the hood: FLUX.2-klein + a custom LoRA + a two-pass "sandwich" pipeline. I posted it on r/StableDiffusion, got a long technical critique with three specific complaints, and ran a 75-image ablation (5 pipeline variants × 5 categories × 3 seeds) to verify. The critic was right — and the ablation surfaced one finding I did not expect: my LoRA literally renders Cyrillic gibberish into the output at the "textbook-correct" inference settings. This is a postmortem. What pinock.io does Open the site → see a feed of AI-generated animals in vintage Soviet/Eastern-European matchbox label illustration style. New image every 30 seconds. ~6,700 images so far. You can like, download, share, search ("cat", "owl"), or queue your own one-word prompt. No accounts, no watermarks, no paywalls.…

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