If that was his goal he would have minded his own business after the election, instead of spouting invective posts against Trump on X.
That was after Musk realized he had alienated his entire consumer base.
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Maken commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g
To make people more accustomed to the AI generated look so that when they release their next Veo integration to YouTube content creator tools, these videos will stand out less as unnatural.
Sadly, this is a real possibility. I would even conjecture they are testing a new pipeline, in which the input is real videos and the output are AI-generated.
For now it's a kind of autoencoding, regenerating the same input video with minimal changes. They will refine the pipeline until the end video is indistinguishable from the original. Then, once that is perfected, they will offer famous content creators the chance to sell their "image" to other creators, so less popular underpaid creators can record videos and change their appearance to those of famous ones, making each content creator a brand to be sold. Eventually humans will get out of the pipeline and everything will be autogenerated, of course.
Louis makes it sound that its actually for protecting the children but we all know its just an excuse for surveillance, control, and ultimately jailing people for wrong opinions (a real threat in the EU since there is no protection of Freedom of Speech anywhere)
The European Convention of Human Rights explicitly protects freedom of expression.
Maken commented on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy polygon.com/steam-paypal-... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
Maybe N26 / Revolut would work in your case?
Those banks also use Visa / Mastercard for payments.
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Bluesky moderation has been fairly even handed as far as I have seen. They also ban plenty of leftists and trans activists when these happen to exceed the ToS. And good luck if you’re a Palestinian trying to fundraise on the platform; they get banned by the hundreds.
Is there any social network in the USA which is not banning Palestinians?
Maken commented on Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website techcrunch.com/2025/08/06... · Posted by u/CalChris
SCOTUS will save us! </snark>
Nowhere in the Constitution is stated that an Executive Orden cannot rewrite the Constitution itself.
Maken commented on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
It's on page 14 of the technical report. They generate synthetic data by putting text on top of an image, apparently without taking the original lighting into account. So that's the look the model reproduces. Garbage in, garbage out.
Maybe in the future someone will come up with a method for putting realistic text into images so that they can generate data to train a model for putting realistic text into images.
Wouldn't it make sense to use rendered images for that?
Maken commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes
"Steam simply didn't want to start a fight with its payment providers over some niche content."
Or the content was never supported by Steam, per their policy. You can check Wayback machine for support for my position. Dod you have any evidence of Steam's motive otherwise?
I don't think inferring causality here is far fetched. They were fine with the content before. And we know it because said content was banned in some countries (including Australia) to comply with local regulations, so they clearly knew what the games were about.
Given that fact we have two options: either they decided to change their approach to content moderation and remove games that previously passed all their checks, with these games being coincidentally the same that were requested by Mastercard; or they decided to remove every game requested by Mastercard regardless of Steam's own policies.