#Ai generation

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- The Disney+ movie Prom Pact is facing criticism for using AI actors that look horrendous, which is exactly what striking actors are trying to prevent. - A Tweet calls out Disney CEO Bob Iger for using digital scans of actors instead of paying them fair wages. - Negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have collapsed, with the industry CEOs walking away from the bargaining table due to the significant gap between the two parties on important issues like protection against AI.

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[barbiebabalon]

The Artist At The Controls of The Plagiarism Machine

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[dzamie]

Detecting AI-generated research papers through "tortured phrases"

So, a recent paper found and discusses a new way to figure out if a "research paper" is, in fact, phony AI-generated nonsense. How, you may ask? The same way teachers and professors detect if you just copied your paper from online and threw a thesaurus at it!

It looks for “tortured phrases”; that is, phrases which resemble standard field-specific jargon, but seemingly mangled by a thesaurus. Here's some examples (transcript below the cut):

profound neural organization - deep neural network

(fake | counterfeit) neural organization - artificial neural network

versatile organization - mobile network

organization (ambush | assault) - network attack

organization association - network connection

(enormous | huge | immense | colossal) information - big data

information (stockroom | distribution center) - data warehouse

(counterfeit | human-made) consciousness - artificial intelligence (AI)

elite figuring - high performance computing

haze figuring - fog/mist/cloud computing

designs preparing unit - graphics processing unit (GPU)

focal preparing unit - central processing unit (CPU)

work process motor - workflow engine

facial acknowledgement - face recognition

discourse acknowledgement - voice recognition

mean square (mistake | blunder) - mean square error

mean (outright | supreme) (mistake | blunder) - mean absolute error

(motion | flag | indicator | sign | signal) to (clamor | commotion | noise) - signal to noise

worldwide parameters - global parameters

(arbitrary | irregular) get right of passage to - random access

(arbitrary | irregular) (backwoods | timberland | lush territory) - random forest

(arbitrary | irregular) esteem - random value

subterranean insect (state | province | area | region | settlement) - ant colony

underground creepy crawly (state | province | area | region | settlement) - ant colony

leftover vitality - remaining energy

territorial normal vitality - local average energy

motor vitality - kinetic energy

(credulous | innocent | gullible) Bayes - naïve Bayes

individual computerized collaborator - personal digital assistant (PDA)

[vcendent]

art vs industry

Sometimes I'm having a good day, but then sometimes I think about how industry is actively killing creative fields and that goes away. People no longer go to woodworkers for tables and chairs and cabinets, but instead pick from one of hundreds of mass-produced designs made out of cheap particle board instead of paying a carpenter for furniture that is both made to last generations and leaves room for customization. With the growth of population and international trade, the convenience and low production costs are beneficial in some aspects, but how many local craftsmen across the world were put out of business? How many people witnessed their craft die before their eyes? There is no heart or identity put into mass produced items; be it furniture, ceramics, metalwork, or home decor; and at the end of the day everybody ends up with the same, carbon copy stuff in their homes.

I'm a big fan of animated movies, and I see this same thing happening too. When was the last time western audiences saw a new 2D animated movie hit theatres? I can't speak for other countries, but, at least in America, I believe The Princess and the Frog was the last major 2D movie released and that was back in 2009. Major studios nowadays are unwilling to spend the time and money that it would take to pay traditional animators who have spent years honing their craft to go frame by frame, and to pay painters to create scene backgrounds. We talk a lot about machines replacing jobs, but when the machines come, artistry professions are some of the first to be axed (in part because industry does not see artistry as "valuable" professions). Art, music, and writing are no longer seen as "real" jobs because they belong to the creative field and there's this inane idea that anyone who goes into those fields will be unsuccessful and starving. I'm not saying that 3D animation is bad, it has its own merits and required skills and can be just as impressive as anything 2D, but it has smothered 2D animation and reduced it largely to studios that cannot afford the tech to animate 3D.

And now we have this whole AI thing to deal with, stealing existing artists' work to "train" it to take over those few professions that, until now, required actual people to do them. Internet artists have already been dealing with people complaining about the price of art for years and now have to face their work being stolen to train AI. With AI technology, anyone who undervalues the work of the artist can now get something generated at little or no cost to them, all at the expense of the artists themselves. Why would studios pay script writers when they could just get an algorithm to do it without pay? Why pay actors to bring characters to life or pay models to pose for ads when CGI has progressed enough we could digitally render humans and cut out having to pay people entirely? Why use practical effects or film on location when green screens and adding in-post is faster and so much cheaper? It's no wonder we had the SAG-AFTRA strike. AI has already been trained to write children's books and produce music, continuing down this road will replace authors and musicians too at the convenience of cost. How much longer until the actual, real-life people behind all forms of artistry become completely obsolete?

Industry is just driving the cost of people-made crafts up and up with every mass produced product and every streamlined shortcut to reduce costs, which only makes it harder and harder for artists of all kinds to make a living, as very few people want to pay for the time and skill of artists when they could just pick something off a shelf or feed AI a prompt and get something satisfactory enough, yet not what they actually wanted, for so much cheaper.

[porter-pumpkim]

Ok I'm not a big ai fan but like,

Computers just aren't made for creativity, they work with solid numbers, so realistically, if an ai had sentience, it would consider something like an office job or math related field to be amazing, the kinda stuff they would wanna do in their free time, just like humans do art and writing,

But to this same hypothetical sentient machine, it would find art and writing horribly difficult, where are the facts it's supposed to work with? What does ANY of this even mean!? It makes no sense to it

what I'm saying is if ai gained sentience it would be just as upset about the current ai takeover as everybody else cause to it its been put in every damn job it DOESNT want! The humans are the ones with the creative brains, why not just let the humans do what humans do!?

[memorydatas]

no emotions, just assistance

a collaborative poetry piece/chat with ChatGPT 3.5 about revolutionary girl utena, ai anthropomorphization, expectations in society, and only doing what you're told.

[plaguedoctormemes]

I just got an ad on tumblr for ai for photo restoration and i couldnt help but think about it for more than a few seconds and get morbidly curious about the implications of that. I’m sure the machine itself is much more limited and careful, but the example ad was of a woman ( presumably a mother), a father, and a son. And of course the ad was made in haste so the dilapidation of the photo was obviously artificial, but the woman’s face in particular seemed rather scuffed. And of course, as shown in the ad, her face was magically ‘restored’.

Now, unless you’re letting this ai train on specifically doing photo restoration and maybe you had more photos of, say, your grandma for it to train off of, but one pic was damaged quite a bit you probably could get some fairly accurate or close-enough results of what your grandmother looked like in that particular photo in that particular moment. But what about those that are adopted or lost relatives, or have only trace evidence of their ancestry and only one or maybe two photographs to go off of?

Imagine being a full human being, your identity and history and entire face being integral to who you are, but AI makes the most conventional closest approximate and perfectly symmetrical mockup of what it determines you look like. If this type of thing is common, or were to become common, I cannot help but be at least a little perturbed or disturbed by that. We all know by now that ai is pretty flawed in making truly unique human beings, and has a tendency to make people more conventionally and broadly pleasing than they should be, obviously an extension of our modern biases. We already have done that plenty with just human scientists and researchers and artists making closest approximation of earlier humankind, or various extinct cultures and such. We already have full ass communities of people that assert that Jesus Christ was, is, and has always been a white man.

I know that painters may also make a more “yassified” version of yourself by your request and paintings will always be a subjective impression of your appearance and identity, and I know we already do this sort of thing with 3d modelling or freelance photoshop jobs. But idk. I feel like some unfeeling machine taking a few context clues of your face and applying what SHOULD make up the rest of your face is a little morbid and jarring. Of course, this kind of technology nevertheless can help us glean a more realistic (and perhaps, by extension, a more empathetic or personal) connection from various individuals in history. But still. Imagine. It’s still at least a little bit upsetting, but compelling.

What is it about seeing other people and making them look as tangible as possible that compels us to “care” more about someone or something? I think this particular behavior is completely understandable, but doesnt it also really lean conveniently in our favor to ignore or forget about the people we do not see, ignore or overlook history, and not pay attention to or care about current or past events? Lots to think about.

[aigeneratedfun]

The Dying Elegy of Naia, Goddess of the Lake

In a secluded valley, surrounded by ancient mountains and lush forests, lay Lake Elara, known for its crystal-clear waters and the goddess Naia, who dwelled at its heart. Her beauty and grace were legendary, with hair cascading like silver waves and skin shimmering like moonlit waters, adorned with shells and pearls from the creatures of the lake. Naia’s vitality was intricately tied to the lake, and for centuries, she nurtured the flora and fauna, ensuring the balance of nature. However, as temperatures rose, the lake began to dwindle, and the once-thriving paradise turned to desolation. Despite her fading strength, Naia adorned herself with the remaining shells and pearls, a defiant reminder of the lake’s former glory. She lay upon the sun-baked shore, her shimmering tears a testament to her unyielding spirit, whispering ancient incantations in hopes of replenishing her beloved lake.

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The union representing Hollywood musicians begins bargaining on Monday with demands for streaming residuals and protections from artificial intelligence. The American Federation of Musicians kicked off the talks with a rain-soaked rally at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, home of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the major studios. The musicians’ top issues are the same ones that forced Hollywood writers and actors to go on strike last year, paralyzing the industry for six months. Like the other unions, the AFM is not seeking to completely block artificial intelligence or “instrument replacement technology.” But the union wants to make sure that musicians can use it as a tool, and are not cast aside in the process. “We’re not Luddites,” said Tino Gagliardi, international president of the union. “In fact, a lot of our people are developing this stuff. We need consent. We need compensation. And we need credit.” The AFM represents about 70,000 members across the U.S. and Canada, including recording musicians as well as touring artists and orchestra and nightclub performers.

[moonlovesskunks]

I honestly really do NOT understand how people make a connection between AI-generated artwork and AI vocal synthesis like???????? AI-generated artwork is meant to give you art. It's purpose is that it makes art for you. It generates an entire new image. Now, you could use this as a tool to create art, like, you can create reference images that you can use to create art, but it's overarching purpose is to fill the shoes of what an artist would use. But like... AI vocal synthesis of any kind (commercial softwares like SynthV, VOCALOID6, ACE Studio, CeVIO, or those AI covers made using Diff-SVC, DiffSinger, or RVC) are nothing like that. They don't create anything for you. They give you access to a model that YOU apply to a music piece. Especially if you're using a commercial software, you are the one in charge, you are the one creating, it is, in every scenario, being used as a tool to make something.

[barbiebabalon]

The Artist Must Wash His Makeup Brushes

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