Steve Troughton-SmithHere’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:
"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”
KanaMaunaSo what will be the main use for all this, beyond tricking the gullible?
Radieschen
Enhance educational equity - Student A from a rich district gets a real live teacher and student B from a poor district gets a mindwarping monstrosity.
sheislaurence@radieschen @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith thank you so much for sharing the supposed drivers behind this development. And the way it is written is revealing “potential benefits”: like the purpose is indeed societal destruction, disinformation, creative theft and ultra capitalisation, they came up with last minute bullshit pretexts like “companionship”, seriously?!! Show me the research showing the mental health benefits of talking to a moneymaking pixel wall!
I guess the purpose is just making money but accepting that people will do bad things with it.
When I read the beneficial uses, I was wondering whether they're actually needs by the groups they're mentioning or if it's just privileged people thinking this might be helpful use cases.
@radieschen @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith the latter, in fact I really believe it is more cynical than this, clearly there is zero market research about the applications they mention, and no one who loves their money go into business without market research. So the research they did and know is lucrative is selling to psychopaths, dictactors and arseholes.
@sheislaurence @radieschen @stroughtonsmith
Exactly. HOW will this be used in education. It is such an afterthought.
MadeInDex 📰🌎@KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
AI will make custom movies & tv shows & games -> bancruptcy for the entertainment industry -> might be good for the environment if all these smart & educated people do different jobs instead
AI will make custom movies & tv shows & games -> bancruptcy for the entertainment industry -> might be good for the environment if all these smart & educated people do different jobs instead
Jim Bliss@madeindex @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
Down with artists!! Down with crafts-people!!
Let's fill the airwaves, the pages of our books, and the walls of our galleries with AI-generated content stolen from artists and crafts-people instead.
Down with artists!! Tell them to get "proper jobs" and leave the creativity to the executives who run AI companies.
You can't be serious.
@JimBliss @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith @nlpbot
People will always make art i personally think, but maybe not as a full-time occupation anymore. Depends how good #AI gets at it. I think it is already much better than me at many things i did as work (i don't like that it's often assumed online that somebody is not affected themselves by something they talk about). There are open source alternatives & people can train their own AI, it does not need to end with big corporations owning it.
People will always make art i personally think, but maybe not as a full-time occupation anymore. Depends how good #AI gets at it. I think it is already much better than me at many things i did as work (i don't like that it's often assumed online that somebody is not affected themselves by something they talk about). There are open source alternatives & people can train their own AI, it does not need to end with big corporations owning it.
Tytrater@madeindex @JimBliss @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith yeah I don’t think artists need to find new jobs, I think they should be considered partial owners of the models that use their art. Artists should get a royalty for every piece of their work that’s fed into a gen AI model, as well as shares in the companies that build and deploy gen AI, that way they can focus on their art and even let the AI worry about monetization if they want
@Tytrater @JimBliss @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
Yeah that would be great if artists were compensated for AI using their work to train. I could imagine it similar to the way music is paid on a per-use basis. There will probably be some interesting proposals in the near future.
Yeah that would be great if artists were compensated for AI using their work to train. I could imagine it similar to the way music is paid on a per-use basis. There will probably be some interesting proposals in the near future.
@madeindex @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
We'll agree to disagree.
I can see useful applications for "AI" (assuming we can deal with the horrendous power usage) but the creation of art is not one of them.
In fact, the idea horrifies me and I suspect will lead to a very dark future if it gets widespread adoption.
But I've already been called "scared and stupid" on this thread. I thought I'd left that bullshit behind on Musk's hellsite. So I'm stepping away from this discussion if that's OK.