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Prompt engineering tip for Google employees: just add "P.S. Make sure the page works in Firefox too."
No worries, even on chromium, their webpage is just horrible. They seems to have focus only on mobile reading, on desktop its a mess.
I let myself get mildly excited with the last Omni release, but it turns out it (and this one) can't do the one practical thing I want - Sync generated video to provided pre-existing audio. Meanwhile, I'm happily using Minimax H3 locally on my 12Gb 4070RTX to finally finish the lip syncing to recorded dialog on my abandoned 20 year old Flash animation hobby projects.
> Minimax H3 locally on my 12Gb 4070RTX Minimax H3 is about 240Gb alone, how do you do? How much quantised is it, and how good are the results?
I'm getting model fatigue at this point. Impressive pace, but fucking exhausting to follow.
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So she doesn't enjoy her job and only works there because you can't make up the $15 hour difference between her working in a book store for minimum wage vs her working for $30 an hour? Why don't you take a part time job on the weekend to lighten her load? There are many people who become a nurse because its a calling.
She loves being a nurse and couldn't do anything else. But that doesn't mean it isn't exhausting for her.
>There are many people who become a nurse because its a calling.
And that excuses the shit pay and unsafe working conditions for nurses?
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Where do I say that nurses shouldn’t have good working conditions or good pay? Most of us have figured this out already: you can take a job at another company that’s better to work for. Most nurses do have pretty good working conditions and get paid well. Competition among employers is the solution here. Walking out and putting customers (or patients in this case) in a precarious position is not.
The average nurse in the southern US is paid roughly ~$30 an hour. Given their responsibilities, long shifts, and overall stress, do you think that's a fair wage?
>Walking out and putting customers (or patients in this case) in a precarious position is not.
Sometimes the system needs to grind to a hault to get peoples attention.
I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software developers, but I hardly ever see any commentary on how it is affecting screen and voice actors.
>"Draft videos more efficiently in 360p Generate lightweight previews in 360p resolution up to 60% faster and at a third of the cost compared to Omni 1.1’s standard 720p resolution. This is helpful for rapid prototyping, storyboard iteration, and quick rendering in developer platforms." This is a great idea, to have a low-resolution mode for additional speed to create previews, do test runs, create rapid prototypes,…
Surprised they don't have something in between a video generation and image generation model (literally like storyboarding) which still took into account physics and world knowledge. You could probably (relatively cheaply) generate decently high resolution storyboards and then have something to directly feed a video model at the end.
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as an art enjoyer, i do not feel that having less media written, drawn, or voiced by a computer is a loss. a computer can never be sad or horny or have taste. it can only make product. i also think artists should be paid living wages with good working conditions. thank you SAG-AFTRA, WGA, IATSE, AEMI and Teamsters.
> a computer can never be sad or horny or have taste Neither can a record player. Nevertheless, we consume recorded music.
I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software developers, but I hardly ever see any commentary on how it is affecting screen and voice actors.
recently I encountered several youtubers in the uncanny valley of "is it Ai or really repetitive intonation pattern" one youtuber used irl footage, with hands and stuff - so I know there's human behind the camera the other was a letsplay that reacted to events just fine emotionally and yet the uncanny valley of the sound is in full force. Maybe youtube has done something with the codecs? I feel sad
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You keep framing it as getting incensed over other people using ai to write code; but that isn't what it's about. A dev union would not attempt that; it would attempt to ensure quality of life for your class of people (and their families) as much as possible. It isn't about policing entire industries or other entities; it is about DEFENDING those who they would, do, and always have exploited when binding contracts or…
> it would attempt to ensure quality of life for your class of people (and their families) as much as possible. What is “your class of people”, and why is it threatened by what other people do with coding robots? You can try to dress it up as an intellectual argument, but at root it’s the same thing that the luddites were trying to do: defending your preferred lifestyle from technological advances. We, the ditch digg…
Thank you for outing yourself as a low-empathy, capital-aligned individual who makes bad-faith arguments, I'll know not to engage you from now on.