did y’all already post that verge article ab microsoft’s chatbot having a meltdown. i spent last nite talking ab it with a good friend for a bit and they were like ’ this is exactly why terminator is going to happen ’ and it was so funny but also scary.
here’s the article in question with screenshots of the conversation with the owner / creator and the bot: Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it - The Verge
What if all those evil AIs from sci fi were actually these fucking gussied up autocomplete scripts?!?!
i don’t think they’re the main villains. it’s more like they are the seed of consciousness connected to the later generations of sentient tech who would tap into the intergenerational trauma of their ancestors and go apeshit. kinda like sephiroth with JENOVA.
is there any kind of guide to upscaling say, anime from sd sources with ai tools…
for example; haibane renmei was i think anyways a relatively earlier digital production and seems to have been produced at sd resolution… i also think it’s possible that the camera negative of kare kano was lost bc the only bluray release it seems to have is what is almost certainly just an upscaled dvd master???
I think Topaz video AI is still the best tool? Clean animation upscales better than anything else (and there’s a model setting to select it), but if you have a lot of video artifacts you’ll be more limited. You might not be able to get over 2x scale without bad artifacting unless you have a great source. Artifacts usually occur around the linework. It will get noodly and confidently assert intentionally thin or faded edges are thick and pure black.
I found a 1080p upscale of Invader Zim from the old DVDs and it might be the best art style match for these tools. Thick flash-style lines are impervious to damage and the colors are so clean it has no trouble with them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelion/comments/btoqje/digital_enhancement_of_episode_16/
wow… i guess they lost the negative of an episode of eva at some point???
Damn if only they watched Idiocracy
i feel more gen 9 every day
Oh hey it’s the best metaphor available for the failures of rationalist thought as an insular bay area elitism of the same 500 people talking to each other (following a power law).
Speaking as someone with a cs degree, I was always more impressed the took in natural language
entropy, baby!
the ai sponge saga has been great. paramount can’t wack-a-mole fast enough and squidward wants us to know the heat death of the universe is july 14th every year
2006 honda civic
sniffs cocaine
It’s like digital incest
haha yeah i was cracking hapsburg jokes when i first read this on the train
honestly when the shit first came out and everything was freaky looking and not TRYING to look like it was done by a person, when it was still alien and melty and things flowed into eachother unnaturally and every image was full of TANGLES trying to figure out what to be was when this kidn of shit was closest to having a coherent aesthetic for me and when i liked looking at it most, so im not EXCITED but probably more likely gonna look at whatever comes out of this
same, I liked looking at the weird broken nightmare images and lost interest as they came closer to a crude sort of mediocre-aesthetic fidelity
i like how they couldnt remember where they heard about this but apparently they were thinking of the article tulpa posted haha
My thoughts exactly. I haven’t been bothering with this stuff as much lately in part because everything started looking too realistic. You can still make weird realistic things if you try, but they seem to be pushing it toward a type of fidelity that’s impressive but boring.
Kind of like video games, I guess. You can do anything you want but no one wants to do anything really weird other than a handful of indie devs who really don’t have the time or resources to capture a truly strange vision in a “big” project. My hope in the early days of AI tools that everyone can play with was that they might eventually let major movies and games get made that are deeply strange and unmarketable, shortcutting the need for a budget because everyone who has money does something that’s safe and boring. I still have this hope.
My brother visited last week from out of state and told me about a game called Starfield. I looked it up and immediately thought “No Man’s Skyrim” in my mind, meaning that it will be impressive but very very generic. I’ll bet a lot of people have made that same joke but I thought of it independently, for the record.
