Can he swing
From a web?
No he can’t
he’s a pig…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARjPuUN36Y&t=20s
Can he swing
From a web?
No he can’t
he’s a pig…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARjPuUN36Y&t=20s
He goes into the details of the most upvoted Google Gemini fails and then branches out to how text/image/audio generative AI is being used on Facebook, Instagram to inflate traffic, as well as how you can actually earn some income by farming reactions on twitter now (with the blue checkmark).
There’s a section on how adobe is selling AI generated images with their stock photos, but you can tell this video might be a little rushed because he comes to the conclusion that people are paying $80 for one of these images, when in reality the $80 adobe plan gives you 40 images (so about $2 per stock image). That or he knows this statement is misleading, but makes it anyway because it will drive his own reactions up (oh the irony). https://web.archive.org/web/20240701131247/https://stock.adobe.com/plans
Link to timestamp in video:
https://youtu.be/UShsgCOzER4&t=894s
With adobe he touches on their updated ToS that state how any images uploaded to Adobe can be used to train their own generative image model.
The Netflix section talks about the “What Jennifer Did” documentary which used AI generated images and passed them off as real (or at least didn’t mention that the images were fake).
Spotify: How audio generative AI is being used to create music and is being published on there now as well as their failed
Edit: as well as their failed “projects/features” (car accessory, exclusive podcasts, etc.)
Multiple times throughout the video he pushes the theory that most of these companies are also using AI generated content to drive engagement on their own site (or to earn income without needing to pay any artists).
He definitely focuses only on the worst ways that generative AI can be used without touching on any realistic takes from the other side (just the extreme takes from the other side with statements like “AI music will replace the soulless crappy music that’s being released now… and it will be better and have more soul!”).
Still worth a watch, he brings up a ton of valid points about the market being oversaturated with AI generated products.
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Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CvTHmt_dI
This is why I prefer it when people specify what kind of “AI” they’re talking about rather than just saying “AI” as a buzzword. I definitely agree with Derbauer here… this is painful.
Great video, he breaks everything down really well…
I might have to start linking to this video rather than trying explain what AI is vs what AI isn’t to those who like to make general statements like “AI is a scam!”.
What @[email protected] seemed to be implying is that direct messages on Mastodon should be considered “public” rather than “private”.
I’m assuming that’s along the same lines of how Lemmy users generally think that their upvotes/downvotes are private when in reality, if you know how to look for them, you can see them.
Ah, I see. So it’s the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren’t public.
It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?
They’re called DMs not PMs
? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did… forgive me, I don’t really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don’t really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).
Hmmm it was even able to pull in private DMs.
Maybe private DMs on Mastadon aren’t as private as everyone thinks… that, or the open nature of Activity Pub is leaking them somehow?
Edit - From the article:
Even more shocking is the revelation that somehow, even private DMs from Mastodon were mirrored on their public site and searchable. How this is even possible is beyond me, as DM’s are ostensibly only between two parties, and the message itself was sent from two hackers.town users.
From what @[email protected] mentioned below, it sounds like this shouldn’t be very shocking at all.
Hah, there’s still about 1,100 different projects still using the wrong value of Pi: https://github.com/search?q=3.141592657&type=code
Interstellar “Inception”, dream training scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-H8oQUs1A
Edit: Freudian slip.
Seriously, if they pull this off it’s a game changer. Finally we’ll have some legit trade routes and we’ll start seeing other systems being introduced as well.
They’re also hiring 40 people at the moment:
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/join-us
Mostly around the Manchester area.
Nice! I bet there’s a keybind somewhere to make it even easier to activate.
I tried it once… almost got locked out, but luckily still had a session logged in somewhere. Lemmy dID not handle 2FA well a few months ago… hopefully it has changed since then. I like to enable it where I can.
Here’s a link to the issue council. Looks like it was finally fixed yesterday, so hopefully it’s included in a hotfix soon.
https://issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-86050
How would you define a scam in the video name industry?
If you think that No Man’s Sky was a scam because everything promised was not available at release… then sure, I can see why you would call Star Citizen a scam.
But if you think that Star Citizen is a scam because there’s no game, or no progress on the game, then you are sorely misinformed.
What a hastily written article…
Some additional information that the reporter failed to realize: The employee was a Customer Service Manager, not an “anonymous former developer”.
https://twitter.com/RayRoocroft/status/1696304618081292521 https://starcitizen.tools/Ray_Roocroft Link to the actual post for better information: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/164cea5/leaks_pyro_release_date_chris_roberts_qa_excig/
Based on this it looks like he was not very involved in the actual development itself, so take that into account when he talks about the “design trajectory”.
Single player games like Starfield and SpaceBourne 2 don’t really compete with MMOs like Star Citizen… if anything it would compete with Squadron 42.
I would counter that there are many good use cases that go beyond the scope of what was mentioned in the video (his concerns are absolutely legitimate).
For example:
Nvidia’s DLSS for gamers. This provides a decent boost to FPS while maintaining a good quality picture. They use multiple models such as motion prediction, interpreting between the frames what the image should look like, and upscaling. These models are (most likely) trained on the video games themselves which is why you want to get the latest driver updates because they include updates to those models. And, yes, the upscaling and interpolation models here are generative models as they are filling in frames with new pictures with details that aren’t there from the source, and then enlarging the picture and filling in details in a way that traditional means of upscaling cannot.
Brainstorming/writer’s block:
For generative text models, I think these have to be used carefully, and treated as if they’re interns that have a knowledge in a very broad range of subjects. They’re great for brainstorming ideas and for writer’s block, but their output needs to be verified for accuracy and the output shouldn’t be trusted or used directly in most cases.
Entertainment:
They’re also excellent for entertainment purposes, for example, check out this GLaDOS project:
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1csnexs/local_glados_now_running_on_windows_11_rtx_2060/
Which is combining a generative text (LLM) model with a generative audio (text to speech) model as well as a few other models.
Green screen tools:
We could use the sodium vapor process to create training material for a model that can quickly and accurately handle processing green screens for video production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
Creating avatars for user accounts on websites.
Creating interesting QR codes that actually work:
https://civitai.com/models/111006/qr-code-monster
So, in the end, I think that there are some incredible uses for generative AI that go beyond just “creating garbage fast”, that don’t cause problems in the way that this video is describing (and those problems he describes are definitely valid).