Hereโ€™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.โ€

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

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@stroughtonsmith

So what will be the main use for all this, beyond tricking the gullible?

@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

@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.
@madeindex @JimBliss @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith yeah I donโ€™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 thatโ€™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.

@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.