The guy seems shrewd enough to know publicly supporting anything AI will shred his reputation - I suspect he might have been duped.
Does anyone read these things before or after they’re sent?
It sounds like spam - by my guess, they usually aren't read at all.
I was focusing more on the fact Justine failed to recognise Minimax had failed at its only job (giving her...whatever that anim is...instead of something actually 8-bit), but yeah all that sucks too
New post from Ed Zitron just dropped which goes into a lotta detail on OpenAI's finances around the time the deal was closing.
I've already cracked one Kendrick reference, so fuck it:
Not a sneer, but a link for Baldur Bjarnason for the week:
Why Halide’s Process Zero is an important tool for iPhone photography enthusiasts
Recommend checking it out for his high praise of the AI-free iPhone camera app, but to make it relevant to this community, I'll pull out the opening section:
Knowing how much work Lux Optics puts into their apps, Halide and Kino, I don’t think their recent Process Zero was implemented as a reaction to the ongoing backlash against “AI”. After all, now that people are increasingly negative about generative models, releasing a new photography mode that bypasses “AI” processing feels like a clever marketing stunt.
Personally, I suspect it was at least partially done for marketing purposes - beyond the wide open "AI-free" market niche, the ability to disable Apple's built-in image processing gives users plenty of control over how they can develop photos.
Part of me suspects there's plenty of those kinda kits out there. The appeal's pretty obvious - just pop the fucker onto any random dumb ordnance you've got laying about, and boom, instant smart bomb.
Lotta people are leaving, holy shit
Update: Milestone got deleted, pulled out a Wayback machine copy
May 2024: Things somehow get worse
BlueMonday1984
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Got recommended a video from a friend, and its a damn good sneer at the state of YouTube sponsorships:
Why YouTube Sponsors Are (Almost) Always Terrible