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ComfyUI-Cleaner: Finding and Removing Models You No Longer Need

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  If you use tools such as ComfyUI, it is remarkably easy to accumulate models that consume massive amounts of disk space. You might download a model only to discover that it is too large for your graphics card. You might be experimenting with different models, downloading several alternatives before settling on one. Sometimes you download a model into the wrong folder, or import a workflow that expects a model in a particular subdirectory, only to end up with two identical copies in different locations. Over time, the situation gets worse. You stop using certain models, delete the workflow JSON files that reference them, but leave the models themselves behind. Eventually, you have hundreds of gigabytes of models taking up disk space. ComfyUI-Cleaner I use ComfyUI Easy Install and wanted a practical way to identify models I probably no longer needed, without manually examining hundreds of files. So I vibe coded ComfyUI-Cleaner , a Python utility designed to help identify...
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Stop Bitching about AI (and do something about it) — Risks to Humanity

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The "Stop Bitching" Part A lot of people are against AI. Blaming the technology rather than those who develop, own, deploy and regulate it may feel satisfying, but it changes little. It allows the people making the decisions to stay out of view while the public argues with something that cannot be held accountable. The possibility that AI could threaten humanity deserves serious attention. But the choice is not simply between trusting it and banning it. As with other powerful technologies, we can decide what is permitted, demand evidence of safety and hold people responsible when things go wrong. The question is whether we will insist on doing so. Who has actually seen this technology? In a post on X , AI researcher Andrej Karpathy offered rough estimates of how much contact people have with large language models: About 75 per cent of humanity has barely encountered them. Around 20 per cent uses free chatbots casually. Roughly 0.2 per cent works with frontier m...
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Stop Bitching about AI (and do something about it) — Jobs and the Economy

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The "Stop Bitching" Part A lot of people are against AI. Blaming the tool instead of the people and entities who own, control and run it is the easy option, and it changes nothing. It directs anger at the thing you can see rather than at those making the decisions. Those who benefit at society's expense have no reason to correct you. They stay out of view, collect the returns, and let the public argue with a technology that cannot be held to account. That anger does not trouble those with media reach, political access and money. It does cost you something, though. It crowds out the uses of AI that would help people, and it leaves the decisions that actually matter to those who turn up to make them. When people worry about AI and jobs, they usually mean something immediate: whether their employer will still need them, whether their children will find a first job, whether their pay will cover the bills, and whether learning another skill will be enough to maintain and ...
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Stop Bitching about AI (and do something about it) — The Environment

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The "Stop Bitching" Part A lot of people are against AI. Blaming the tool instead of the people and companies who own and run it is the easy option, and it changes nothing. It points the anger at the thing you can see rather than at the people making the decisions. Those who benefit at society's expense have no reason to correct you. They stay out of view, collect the returns, and let the public argue with a technology that cannot be held to account. That anger does not trouble anyone with media reach, political access and money. It does cost you something, though. It crowds out the uses of AI that would help people, and it leaves the decisions that actually matter to whoever turns up to make them. When people say AI is wrecking the environment, they usually mean something specific and local: the massive industrial shed going up a few fields away, the water it will draw in a dry summer, the hum at two in the morning, the lorries on a road built for tractors, and a po...
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