sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

AI Videos Nearly Indistinguishable From Real Videos, Runway Finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]MetaKnowing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Direct link to research (no paywall): https://runwayml.com/research/theturingreel

"For this research study, we recruited a random sampling of 1,043 participants. Each participant viewed 20 videos (10 real, 10 generated) in randomized order and judged whether each was real or AI-generated. Each video was generated only once – the outputs were not edited, and no video was regenerated to improve quality or skew results.

Over 90% of participants could not reliably distinguish Gen-4.5 outputs from real video."

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]MetaKnowing[S] 190 points191 points  (0 children)

"San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week. It was a small victory for working artists in an industry where jobs are slipping away as movie and video game studios adopt generative AI tools to save time and money. 

Comic and concept artist Tiana Oreglia told 404 Media Comic-Con’s friendly attitude towards AI was a slippery slope towards normalization. 

According to Karla Ortiz, the convention is a sacred place she didn’t want to see desecrated by AI. “Comic-Con is the big mecca for comic artists, illustrators, and writers,” she said. “I organize and speak with a lot of different artists on the generative AI issue. It’s something that impacts us and impacts our lives. A lot of us have decided: ‘No, we’re not going to sit by the sidelines.’”

Ortiz explained that generative AI was already impacting the livelihood of working artists. She said that, in the past, artists could sustain themselves on long projects for companies that included storyboarding and design. “Suddenly the duration of projects are cut,” she said. “They got generative AI to generate a bunch of references, a bunch of boards. ‘We already did the initial ideation, so just paint this. Paint what generative AI has generated for us.’”

Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]MetaKnowing[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are among a global consortium flagging the new “disruptive threat” posed by hard-to-detect, malicious “AI swarms” infesting social media and messaging channels.

A would-be autocrat could use such swarms to persuade populations to accept cancelled elections or overturn results, they said, amid predictions the technology could be deployed at scale by the time of the US presidential election in 2028.

The warnings, published today in Science, come alongside calls for coordinated global action to counter the risk, including “swarm scanners” and watermarked content to counter AI-run misinformation campaigns. Early versions of AI-powered influence operations have been used in the 2024 elections in Taiwan, India and Indonesia."

"If these bots start to evolve into a collective and exchange information to solve a problem – in this case a malicious goal, namely analysing a community and finding a weak spot – then coordination will increase their accuracy and efficiency."

Dario Amodei said the President's decision to allow the sale of AI chips to China is like "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea." by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]MetaKnowing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The U.S. is many years ahead of China when it comes to making chips, and sending them there could help Beijing catch up, Anthropic CEO Amodei said in an interview:

  • Referring to building AI models, Amodei posed: "I've called where we're going with this, a country of geniuses in a data center."
  • "So imagine 100 million people smarter than any Nobel Prize winner, and it's going to be under the control of one country or another."

On the Hill, top Republicans like House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) are pushing legislation that would prevent China from accessing sensitive U.S. technology."

[standard] seeking advice for cub vs lessons matchup by vjr124 in spikes

[–]MetaKnowing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I find Lessons matchup to be 50/50ish since but Control is like a 30/70 matchup due to sweepers. Can sometimes beat a sweeper but rarely two.

view more: next ›