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YouTube video by Friendly Space Ninja Dune Prophecy Is Pretty Bad

Honestly I stopped watching from the first episode because of the line "[People] don't like to lie. The body rejects it."

What a bad take on human psychology.

David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID.

He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind.

Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.

Didn't know anything about Wicked coming in. I knew it was gonna go hard but DAMN it went HARD. And Cynthia Erivo's voice is the most magnificent thing!

Restoring a 1941 photo of actress Ava Gardner using a variety of AI tools.

Bluesky = Gmail
AT Protocol = Email

The latter being the protocol and OPEN standard for decentralised social networking services powering Blue sky -- which means that unlike Twitter or Facebook, no single entity controls the Bluesky social network.

Thank you @hankgreen.bsky.social for the analogy!

Agreed. I appreciate his non-destructive, reversible approach to restoration.

You'd think that's the norm but half of the stuff he does seems to be undoing bad restoration efforts.

Heck, I can already restore images somewhat, using Inpainting (in InvokeAI) to select damaged sections of a painting and prompting those areas back into existence. I can even reverse aging and even recolor using similarly ML-assisted methods.

Mythbusters and the human curiosity it represents will always be human-centric, I think, but seeing as how TV networks wouldn't produce a show like that anymore (as opposed to cheaper reality shows or, god forbid, AI-generated shows), the threat is there all the same.

In the case of Baumgartner, how long before AI takes over painting restoration? Julian Baumgartner has already started using the machine learning techniques to assist him. Is the physical act of restoration by hand safe or is there a machine-only option somewhere over the horizon?

Watching old episodes of Mythbusters and the YT channel Baumgartner Restorations, I keep wondering how much of the human touch can remain, well, human.

Living in Adelaide has given me respite from the AI deluge that is taking over everywhere else. It's not going to last of course, but still, it's nice to be able to hold a camera again, to edit and write and just do the craft without having to look over my shoulder, even for a short while.

It's the same with threads apparently 🤷‍♂️

I think I had to scroll past 20 posts from groups and pages and ads before I found one from a friend. Facebook is a wasteland.

Oh hello, Bluesky. What's tricks?

Silo Season 2 Episode 1: Those first 5 minutes are DEVASTATING. We're BACK baby!

As someone who A. lives in a Jollibee-less country & B. is allergic to chicken, I would k*ll for a ChickenJoy right about now