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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Aw man, Natasha Lyonne is going AI. Notably she is partnering with a company, Moonvalley, that claims to have developed an “ethical” model, Marey, trained on “clean” data- i.e. data that is owned or licensed by Moonvalley and whoever else they are partnering with.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And thus Poker Face joins Sandman in the "no longer interested in Season 2" pile, but for different reasons.

The plot of Uncanny Valley centers on “a teenage girl who becomes unmoored by a hugely popular AR video game in a parallel present.”

So, Tron again, then. But with goggles this time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean I appreciate the attempt to mitigate one of the many problems with genAI, but I would expect the smaller dataset to make a model that confabulates even more and is gonna be even harder to work with than something like Sora. Like, I'm sure a decent director will be able to make something with it but I can't see how it's going to be better results or more time/money/labor efficient than human VFX pipelines even if you pay the poor bastards decently.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

That and also: training and running a model still takes a ton of energy! LLMs will never be ethical.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

ah yes the 937 partners of this website and their legitimate interest to scan and own your thoughts forever

i don't expect literally this but there's some potential hidden sleaziness inside

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

looking into this, but as far as i can tell the AI here is entirely fake

need more to declare it such

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for looking into it. The idea of an ethical data set large enough to train an LLM is suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

current thesis is A Guy Instead in the Philippines, dressing up wireframes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Now I want an anti-AI song parody called “A Guy Instead” to the tune of the Beatle’s “I’ll Cry Instead”