It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
China's tech industry is thriving! They produced 3 billion chips daily, with a total output of 100 billion in Q1, up 40% YoY. March alone saw an impressive 28% jump to 36 billion units, driven by growth in NEVs and smartphones (17%). By 2027, China's global share of mature-process capacity is projected to rise from 31% to a...
The power of those chips matters a great deal. If China is producing mostly chips supporting IoT devices, and its imports are computer chips of the Intel/AMD variety, it doesn't have nearly as much impact as the title implies.
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...
No. No, they can't. This shit still takes lots and lots of training data.
It's just like any job. You can't just fully fake something in one day. At best, you might get 60% of the way there, maybe 80% after adding on some generic experience. But, you're not going to fully mimic anything without lots of training and experience.
An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and...
I’d say that’s about 10-15 years too late, but as a total outsider who’s not at all familiar with the situation, it looks like his realization and action on it was sincere.
2009 is better than realizing it in 2016. The GOP took the Tea Party and funneled all of that hate and racism over Obama and his "tan suits" into something much worse.
There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per decade. This time, the focus is on generative systems, particularly LLMs and other tools designed to generate plausible outputs that either make people feel like the response is...
The article makes several claims and insinuations without backing them up so I find it hard to follow any of the reasoning.
"Article". I'm going to call it what it is: a blog post that should have moderated away. If people here are going to post "tech news", make sure it has actual journalism.
Postel’s law IMHO is a big mistake - it’s what gave us Internet Explorer and arbitrary unpredictable interpretation of HTML, leading to decades of browser incompatibility problems. But the law is not even applicable here. Unlike the Internet, we want the AI to appear to think for itself rather than being predictable.
It's almost like Isaac Asimov wrote a famous book about robotic laws and a bunch of different short stories on how easy it was to circumvent them.
They already fixed most of the bugs in the first major patch. Are you talking about the lost audio log near the entrance to the elevator on Level 8? They fixed that problem.
Because System Shock 2023 just sounds goofy. I'm not sure how else they could have renamed it. They've been doing this with movies for decades, too.
The "Enhanced Edition" was the old version of the game with some mods and tweaks to make it playable for modern audiences. The new one is an actual graphical and gameplay remake.
Good, they've been on a tear of classic remakes here lately, and I hope the new engine System Shock was built from can be used to remake System Shock 2.
The only game I found that was actually successful in doing something like that was "Dark Souls: Remastered", and only because it's fucking Dark Souls.
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Meta is treading carefully, doing a phased implementation while continuing conversations with Fediverse leaders. This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks. “Do we adapt the protocol to be able to support this?” Lambert asks. “Or do we try to do some kind of interesting, unique...
Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.
It turns out that trying to push one server to be the by far the most popular Lemmy server, maybe, just maybe, might be antithetical to the concept of a Fediverse.
It's either that or, gasp, actually paying moderators.
I'd rather just automate the solution. It's still going to run into some amount of human tweaking and biases, but at least it won't require the massive amount of manpower that moderation requires right now. Something that requires so much manpower that no corporation is willing to actually pay the workforce.
I made two posts critical of reddit and they each seemed to have been astroturfed by toxic reddit shills.
Here or at Reddit? I have never ever ever seen proof that Lemmy is pro-Reddit at anything. Like, most of the people here migrated from Reddit on bad terms with them.
Guy is completely tone-deaf when he pushes some fitness as a service crap for his sponsor, immediately after complaining about how monthly services are replacing one-time purchases.
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...
Yeah, Rust is cool, but every CS grad and their mother knows Java.
Sure, twenty-five years ago, when Sun was pushing their language hard into colleges everywhere.
Now? Sun Microsystems doesn't even exist, and everybody hates the JVM in an ecosystem where VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes do the whole "virtual machine" model much better.
It's open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license. So, who the fuck cares where it came from? It's a helluva lot more open-source than anything OpenAI or Midjourney is putting out.
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Yeah, if you go back through hundreds of years of artwork, most of it are pictures of women. Some of them are nude. There are many many artists that only draw women, modern or classical. And there's a ton of male Japanese artists from centuries ago that did the same thing.
I asked it to create a sort of witchy, sorceress character and many of the generations she was fully topless with her boobs out, despite me not asking that or even explicitly putting “fully clothed” into the prompt. There was one image that the system created and then removed and threatened me with a ban for it being too sexualized despite me putting no sexual language in the prompt and it being all the AI.
That's just one model, and obviously not Stable Diffusion. LD models are just based on whatever they were trained on. If you don't like it, download another model trained on something else and try it out. Or train one yourself.
Also, I wish everybody would download a SD client and just use this software locally. All of these toy websites are shit, and local clients aren't going to threaten to ban you because of what you generated. It's a good learning experience to figure out the software, and these tools are useful for more things than just bitching about the tech on the web.
That's DALL-E. DALL-E is different than Stable Diffusion, which is different from Midjourney, which is different from the many NAI anime models out there.
We need to stop treating LD models like they are all the same thing. Models are based on the data they are trained on. Sure, a lot of them started out from a Stable Diffusion model, but that's not always the case, and enough training can have them go off in specialized directions.
The pictures in your embedded widget on your post say "Unterstützt von DALL-E 3". Also, the very start of the article says "When Melissa Heikkilä tried Lensa’s Magic Avatars", which uses Stable Diffusion, but I'm not sure if they further trained it themselves.
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
It's bizarre. People suddenly start voicing pro-copyright arguments just to kill an useful technology, when we should be trying to burn copyright to the fucking ground. Copyright is a tool for the rich and it will remain so until it is dismantled.
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces ( www.wired.com )
China now produces more chips domestically than it imports. ( lemmy.ml )
China's tech industry is thriving! They produced 3 billion chips daily, with a total output of 100 billion in Q1, up 40% YoY. March alone saw an impressive 28% jump to 36 billion units, driven by growth in NEVs and smartphones (17%). By 2027, China's global share of mature-process capacity is projected to rise from 31% to a...
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages ( www.404media.co )
An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and...
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF ( littlegreenfootballs.com )
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? ( www.nytimes.com )
Let's discuss: Polybius ( beehaw.org )
The format of these posts is simple: let's discuss a specific game or series!...
Unveiling the xz Utils Backdoor which deliberately opens our SSH connections for RCAs ( www.youtube.com )
ByteDance releases AnimateDiff Lightning ( huggingface.co )
Today's AI is unreasonable ( www.anildash.com )
There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per decade. This time, the focus is on generative systems, particularly LLMs and other tools designed to generate plausible outputs that either make people feel like the response is...
Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May ( www.eurogamer.net )
Stable Diffusion 3 prompt adherence ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
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Noita - A roguelike for the mentally deranged ( www.youtube.com )
Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways ( www.businessinsider.com )
Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM ( www.eurogamer.net )
Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations
If your IP (and possible your browser) looks "suspicious" or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information....
Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership ( www.gamesindustry.biz )
What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users ( www.wired.com )
Meta is treading carefully, doing a phased implementation while continuing conversations with Fediverse leaders. This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks. “Do we adapt the protocol to be able to support this?” Lambert asks. “Or do we try to do some kind of interesting, unique...
Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way ( www.wired.com )
Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.
Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision ( disconnect.blog )
Not what I subscribed for, but *are you kidding me* ( lemmy.world )
who tf is muenster spade
Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
It feels like the amount of both, divisive posts and ghoulish comments is rising again....
Vape-o-nomics: Why everything is addictive now. ( youtu.be )
A video about disposable vapes, and how addiction became the goal of every single company on the planet.
I can never go back, I can see why torrenting is so popular in Canada ( sh.itjust.works )
Canny and Inpainting ControlNets for Würstchen v3 Have Been Trained ( i.imgur.com )
https://nitter.net/dome_271/status/1749494484897796355...
Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy ( wedistribute.org )
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...
Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit? ( lemm.ee )
Shocked Pikachu face meme.
Tencent released MotionCtrl for Stable Diffusion Video ( nitter.cz )
https://nitter.cz/_akhaliq/status/1747275860607177121#m...
Latest Adblock update causes massive YouTube performance hit ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Update 1/16 - Adblock has informed BleepingComputer that its engineers fixed the problem and released ABP 3.22.1 and AB 5.17.1 on the Opera and Edge extension stores. The same versions are currently in review on the Mozilla and Chrome add-on stores, and should be made available soon.
Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? ( joysauce.com )
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair ( gizmodo.com )
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post) ( lemmy.ml )
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material ( arstechnica.com )
Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex... ( lemmy.world )
Image shows a tweet with the header "and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH"...