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Post by taylorportman »

seydor wrote: post #209
Swizec wrote: post #114

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> In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? Will Norms and values around sex/body shaming change? I hoped this would happen with social media. Everyone says stupid shit online and everyone has past beliefs they’ve outgrown. So what’s the big deal? Instead we went the opposite way. Everyone is super self conscious and censoring at all times because you never k…

This is not the same though, it's about being able to deny that that photo of you is real, not that it's taken out of context.

It is an interesting point [the hope that values will adapt to reflect typical mischievous patterns of social dynamics within various clusters].. I used to marvel during the dotcom era at the salivating delight of "the internet never forgets" of college students caught smoking a bong and the subsequent impact on their career (virtue signalling?).. I saw hope that society could then adapt about ridiculous FUD biases. There is a strange relationship of scarcity & opportunity and these windows into souls painting a distorted picture of the darker side of our ambitions. It is a cancer. Also, humans are always testing boundary conditions - curiosity, discontent, security,insecurity. Some inherent desperation of people jockeying for the next path from frying pan to fire in the search for greener pasture breeds opportunism that seems certain to favor desperation and negativity.

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Post by cgio »

simondotau wrote: post #281
kortex wrote: post #238

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Simple: a "real" photo is one in which a light field from the real world impinges on a photosensitive media (CCD, film), and directly encodes that information, with some allowance for global light levels, gain, ISO, and speed. Anything else is a modification therein. HDR, multi-exposure compositing, etc, aren't truly "real". They may be 99% real, but aren't 100% real. If you crop it, it's 99.9% real (we have models w…

So if I take a photo of a photoshopped photo, it is a real photo.

It is a real photo of a photoshopped photo, not a real photo of the photoshopped photo’s subject.

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Post by derac »

thfuran wrote: post #231
derac wrote: post #163

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A quick Google shows an estimate that it was a 100 billion dollar market in 2017. Seems there is a lot of demand.

But what portion of that demand is specifically for artisinally handcrafted authentic sex rather than for apparent sex acts?

Oh sorry, the OP was worded differently when I saw it. That's not what I meant.

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Post by sharperguy »

derac wrote: post #184
criddell wrote: post #54

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If I’m willing to buy a computer, any pointers on what I would have to buy? I’m asking for specific models from a company like Dell, Apple, or Lenovo?

Wait for the 4070, it should be around the perf of a 3080/maybe 4090 for ~500 bucks if rumors hold up. It is coming in a few months. NZXT used to make good pre-builts. Not sure which others have a good rep. DO NOT BUY DELL.

They were saying that before the 3080 was released. It will be cheaper and better than current hardware. Then when it came out you couldn't buy it for a year.

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Post by earth_walker »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

I think you don't give enough emphasis on the "if you even could before" part. Sure, this makes realistic fakes easier and more available to to the masses. So what? We've had the technology to 'frame' people in similar ways for decades now, and other than entertain the 4chan teens it does squat.

There's enough money interest in bringing down certain politicians, if faking a sex tape or back-room conversation would make any difference to the world it would have been done already. Hell, politicians pretty much admit publicly that they are rapists and we don't do anything about it. Who's gonna care about a couple of gorilla-pics of a normie?

People don't and never have trusted any evidence that doesn't reaffirm their world view, regardless of how true that evidence is. More realistic evidence won't change that.

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Post by quadcore »

egypturnash wrote: post #157
mkaic wrote: post #85

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(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster . And every place this shit get…

This feels so wrong this AI thing, strangely enough Im not that stressed.

Look at the recursive side of it its hilarious. Im an artist. AI is around. Do I want to put my work online? No. So no artists put stuff online anymore? So how does future of art work exactly? Will send booklets by mail again?

There is the democratic side of it. We the people ultimately decides. Those pictures are generated by using artists works, not out of thin air. So not a freedom question here but a people one: do we want that or not? Maybe with 30+ years old pictures for example, could be good for economy.

I mean you can literally replace any job you want but the artist's it seems. Imagine when people will be jobless because AI replaced them. You'd think they'd want to make art during their retirement right?

Its a case where the snake eat itself. If AI ruins our online life, we'll stop going online.

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Post by mrshadowgoose »

mabbo wrote: post #33

The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

> The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading.

> Why bother asking people not to? I guess if it helps you sleep at night that you tried, I guess?

I've perceived this as them doing the necessary amount of virtue-signaling and ass-covering to avoid the ire of groups that are loud/powerful enough to cause issues for them in the short-term. I've been following the developments in this space for a while now, and I don't get the impression that Stability AI cares too much about forcing Western ideals of "correctness" onto the public.

It's plainly obvious that this is going to be immediately used to produce content considered obscene, offensive and/or illegal by various groups of people. And it is what it is, we're going to just have to figure out how to live with it as a society. It's going to get far far worse (from certain points of view) as we continue to replicate functionality previously exclusively featured in human brains.

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Post by jcims »

jmfldn wrote: post #69
simonw wrote: post #4

If you want to try it out this seems to be the best tool for doing so: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/

I just tried it via this link. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but the results were extremely underwhelming. I've used Dall E 2 and Midjourney extensively so I know what they're capable of. Maybe I'm missing something?

Use it as a muse for interior design... I'm trying to find a color scheme for my apartment livingroom.

prompt: apartment living room with puffy dark brown leather couches, light gray carpet

Keep clicking generate until you see something you like. If you don't, add modifiers (elegant, sexy, masculine/feminine, style/era, etc)

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Post by egypturnash »

cercatrova wrote: post #263
egypturnash wrote: post #257

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Please save this comment and re-read it when a new development in AI suddenly goes from "this is cute" to "holy fuck my job feels obsolete and the motherfuckers doing it are not gonna give a single thought to all the people they're putting out of work". Thank you.

Look at that, you said the same thing to me 8 days ago [0]. I'll stick to the same rebuttals you got for that comment as well, namely that AI comes for us all, the only thing to be done is to adapt and survive, or perish. Like @yanderekko says, it is cowardice to assume we should make an exception for AI in our specific field of interest. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462157

Yeah, I'm saying this to everyone who tells me to suck it up. Eventually this line ain't gonna work when the only job left is AI researcher.
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