Phil Chacko

This is the best critique of Abundance I've read. There's a lot in here that's fair.

But, many of these critiques lean on ivory tower "studies" rather than getting into the nitty gritty of individual cases. It would be more powerful to cite specific cases with people in the trenches. I'm skeptical.

Surprise! You've actually hired an artificial whistleblower.

No they're doing it wrong. AI raises the floor on what's expected. If you use AI a lot you can tell when a piece of writing was low-effort.

Because all these tools exist standing out means the work needs to be that much higher quality. As standards rise the grading curve should move higher.

The thing those statutes may be lacking is that they are not sentient and can't take physical form to enforce themselves.

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The hesitance is understandable, but Dems can’t win when we’re afraid.

Both Hillary and Kamala were solidly establishment. They made risk-averse choices at key junctures, from slogans to media strategies. No vision.

AOC has no fear. AOC is anti-establishment. She’s got clear vision.

Chatting with faculty there, the problem is that there are Trumpers on Columbia's Board of Trustees. That's where pressure needs to be applied.

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Just for fun, here's a shot from the other day I found amusing:

That's all, cheers!

It's going to take time for all of this to be brought up to par with what audiences generally expect, but hybrid workflows are likely the way to go in most cases for now!

Once that is solved, you still want workflows around camera work, choosing angles, layouts, composition, etc. You also want to be able to edit locations, and other objects in the scene.

Even when you do, there is still sometimes an "uncanny" effect in live action shots, which some creators lean into for meme-y short form content, but isn't good enough for long form content. You can get decent results for AA-grade animated content though.

While building our tool to help anyone with a story get it brought to life, the biggest challenge we have by far is character consistency. Getting a character to look the same, and believable is not a trivial thing to do in AI at the moment.

AI introduces new foundational technology into the video creation process, and so basic things still need to be built to bring it up to par with what's achievable with prior VFX, live action, and animation methods.

Reddit poster asks: What are the current challenges in AI video creation?

I figure my response is a good quick state of where we are. Curious what folks think:

My mistake! Too quick to post that one.

Dammit you are correct. I shall take this down for a rewrite, ha.

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

I use it every day. Crazy.

I’ll be watching Q1 earnings closely to see if US policy uncertainty results in weak forward guides. That might do it.

The Possible Company.

Running a little, not-so-serious experiment:

Drop any link in here and we'll turn it into a 1-2 min movie. Lemme know what you think
www.thepossible.io

Are you suuuure it needs to be healthy?

People worry about misaligned AI, but social media algorithms have been misaligned for some time, so here we are.

Future Historian: "Turns out, it was this book that led to the fall of American civilization."

I hope we will remember this wannabe Hitler as a redux of Hoover.

Americans need to feel pain for this madness to end. Kick the shit out of us please.

Yes. I've seen it happen, sadly.

Might have to explain that one to me, if you don't mind?

Old man millennial thought for today: Was our culture always this transactional and zero sum? What happened to building relationships and things that last?

If we go into a recession, this administration will unravel pretty quick.

We're moving from a bell curve world into a power law world. This is old news for Silicon Valley, but it has broken containment and will diffuse throughout society.

This has all kinds of implications, and the political disruption we're seeing is part of that transition. Look out. =/