We have been seeing some of these genuine use cases: youtube creators, audiobooks, elearning videos, podcasts, commercials, dubbing, and gaming.
No-one is going to listen to an audiobook made with this. It's still fundamentally just TTS.
Readit Newsksrm commented on Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio · Posted by u/hammadh
It just raises the bar so that 3D artists who are only capable of reproducing the same boring things they saw in YouTube tutorials are no longer considered proficient.
The more I think about this trend, the more I think it might be good.
Bootcamp devs are no longer good enough for junior roles since a GPT could replace them. Digital media people who learnt via YouTube and have no real talent are no longer skilled enough. Writers who can only churn out mediocre blog spam are now jobless.
This seems like it might be a net benefit.
It is good when people lose their jobs, actually!
ksrm commented on The Graphical User Interface Gallery toastytech.com/guis/index... · Posted by u/6581
Another great site from back in the day is the GUIdebook Gallery: https://guidebookgallery.org/guis
Get a cheap USFF (ultra small form factor) PC. Its essentially laptop components in a small headless box. For the going price of a rpi 4 you could have an i5 or i7 with 8-16G ram and a proper SSD
These seem to have laptop-style fans in them - do you know if they can be run silently?
ksrm commented on Twitter Office Supply Auction bidspotter.com/en-us/auct... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.
extremely hacker news comment
Human artists derive their inspiration and styles from a large set of copyrighted works, but they are free to produce new art despite of that. Art would have developed much slower and be much poorer if, for example, Impressionism or Cubism had been entangled in long ownership confrontations in courts.
Then there's the fact that humanity has been able to develop and share art and literary works for thousands of years without the modern copyright system.
It would be interesting to see if this technology can erode the copyright concept a bit. Maybe not remove it completely, but perhaps influence people to create wider definitions for "fair use", and undo the extensions that Disney lobbyists have created.
AI tools aren't people. We don't have to treat them the same.
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On the one hand, I would have supported Cloudflare in continuing to provide service to Kiwifarms as someone not employed there if that was their conviction.
On the other hand, If I were the CEO, Owner, whatever of Cloudflare I would have cut ties with kiwifarms a long time ago on the grounds the site promotes truly immoral and reprehensible content and I wouldn't want any resources I control going toward helping them do so for my own conscience to be at ease.
Not just immoral and reprehensible, the campaigns of targeted harassment they undertake limit the victims' speech. If you care about people being able to freely express themselves, today is a good day. I don't know why the free speech defenders miss this (I do know).
ksrm commented on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans” nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/alphabetting
I genuinely don't understand what is so problematic about this article. Is the article's guidelines even binding in the first place? Many here seem to be saying that this editoral is promoting censorship, but that's not my interpretation at all. It just seems to be encouraging "respectful, non-stigmatizing language to avoid perpetuating stereotypes", avoid conflating different but similar terms and in particular asking people to be really clear about categories pertaining to people to avoid "potential misuse" by the media. All of this seems reasonable to me, and also good science.
While I haven't checked the codes of ethics cited in sociology or anthropoly, the article suggests that their recommendations aren't completely original. Obviously, since I've not looked into this, I'm not making any claims about this particular point.
While I admit that I did not read the full article in detail, since a number of people here are mostly discussing the fourth paragraph, or are discussing the first sentance on race, I wonder how many have actually read this properly.
It's Big Brain 200 IQ Hacker News, what did you expect
Reality for kids seems so much more competitive and ruthless in every way. And there are so few resources available to them to help them deal with it.
At the same time opportunities are shrinking and pressure to perform is increasing. It's not enough to be adequate, you have to be outstanding in looks, talent, ability, work ethic, party ethic, lifestyle, income, and education.
But you can't be. Because you're not competing with a small group of relative peers, you're competing with the entire online world.
At the same time there's incoming doom in the form of climate change, Covid mismanagement, outrageous and crippling economic inequality, various wars, and now the threat of AI.
It would be strange if kids weren't getting depressed under these circumstances.