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- grafician0
Funding in AI
- utopian2
- only available on the premier subscription. I tried the 1.6 version and it's wacky as hell.
can't spend $100/month just to test it out._niko - but having said that, this power rangers clip is just incredible. A million times better than any CGI. It captures all the nuances of a human, the breathing,_niko
- the twitches, the everything else that we can't articulate._niko
- Kling is not $100/mo. I have the Pro/mo for $32. And they also offer the Premier Subscription for $65 with discount.NBQ00
- it won't let me test the Kling 2.0 without a subscription to Premier. And it's close to $100 CAD_niko
- Hmm then it must be a localisation thingy where they charge differently in certain areas.NBQ00
- Ah, damn that sucks_niko
- "....A million times better than any CGI..."
WTF.ApeRobot - lol ok 1.2 times better! but still better with a million times less effort._niko
- only available on the premier subscription. I tried the 1.6 version and it's wacky as hell.
- neverscared1
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
- NBQ00-1
- i disagree with "jack of all trades" being not good. These are the people who are going to be able to wrangle systems and people to work together.mantrakid
- 1. Communications skills.
2. Understanding specialties (even without the technical skills to accomplish them) will still be important.mantrakid - You need someone who understands how things are supposed to go monitoring the machines to ensure they are on track.mantrakid
- yuekit0
It's surprising how many people seem to be using AI to write comments on social media. Apparently some people are just lazy AF or lack confidence is their own writing abilities.
The writing style is easy to recognize...lots of cheesy one liners, over-use of comparisons ("this isn't x, it's y"), use of an em dash which the average person is never going to think of adding themselves.
- https://i.imgflip.co…jonny_quest_lives
- These have to be bots. It seems like every other post on Threads is a bot.Frosty_spl
- Spacestoemaas
- it's always the dashesgrafician
- Shit, I love using long dashes.stewart
- good writers use em dashes appropriatelymonospaced
- Who doesn't love the em dash as a comma in a four word sentence?garbage
- Only copywriters use a dozens of em dashes and break every thought into multiple sentences.utopian
- Technically it's considered "good writing" to do that (break into short sentences) but almost no one does it. When I do SEO analysis on content it will oftenyuekit
- recommend breaking up the sentences to get a better ranking.yuekit
- I don't mind a good em-dash when it makes sense, and there definitely is a time and place for them. The best copywriters I know absolutely do use them.monospaced
- But, now I find myself removing and avoiding them for the new association with AI generated content.monospaced
- ^this.garbage
- I don't think it's necessary for social media.ephix
- It's used incorrectly there. That's supposed to be a comma.cannonball1978
- webazoot1
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publi…
Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem
Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, anyone can generate comment, on any subject, in an instant.
It is a technology that appears to have fuelled a rise in expert commentators who have appeared widely in national newspapers but who are either not real, not what they seem to be or at the very least have CVs which do not justify their wide exposure in major newsbrands.
Press Gazette’s investigation suggests gaming this system has become a major industry which may also be a lucrative one for the brands involved.
- grafician-3
"Sam Altman admits that saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power."
- yuekit1
With the new OpenAI image tool I feel like it's getting to the point where you can use this stuff for real work...what do people think? It probably has the best image quality but the big step forward is being able to better communicate what you want.
However prompting alone still feels like a clunky way to generate imagery. Eventually you'd hope for more granular controls, layering, reusable objects, direct control of type etc.
- I wouldn't feel right using it for actual published work, but not because of the quality per say.monospaced
- I mean as a step in the process. Let's say you needed to edit an image, it might be getting to the point where it's easier to use AI than Photoshop.yuekit
- Absolutely as a step. Weeps for illustrators.monospaced
- Nowadays, if you aren’t integrating it in the process you’re a dinosaur. How damn fast it happened is crazy.monospaced
- Yeah IMO this is the right way to think about it...not as a replacement for workers but as a new tool. And I think more real-world adoption will happen asyuekit
- they improve the user experience to give people more control over what they're creating and tailor for specific use cases.yuekit
- yuekit2
AI as Normal Technology
https://knightcolumbia.org/conte…
Personally I think this makes more sense than the techno utopian view that he are in a race towards "AGI", the Singularity etc.
Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future as you can see from these old illustrations...they often get the directionality right but the details completely wrong.
- mantrakid5
im a hardcore user of emdashes in my writing.. i always just like the way it looks and found it effective for communicating a thoughtful pause or contrast. I hate that it is such a AI trope and would hate for someone to think that something that i earnestly wrote was actually written by ai. I went into my keyboard auto-replace settings on macos and set it up so when i type an emdash -- it auto converts it into 2 hyphens. :)
its the opposite of how it worked already because it was already converting to an emdash when i typed -- but now when i type -- it keeps it as -- and when i type an emdash it converts it to --.
Now i can keep my writing style and not look like ai... now i just look an idiot who is taking punctuation into his own hands. haha
- til Text Replacementi_monk
- Ha! I’m pissed any time AI uses it — it’s a tell-tale sign_niko
- When using AI I always prompt to omit any en dashes, em dashes, hyphens, colons or semi colons. Because AI loves using a combo in everything it writes!utopian
- I'm doing the opposite. I'm starting to use em dashes in my writing. Buckle up, fuckos.palimpsest
- ^Continuity
- hahah palimpsestmantrakid
- same, mantra, emdash is by far my favourite grammatical devicescruffics
- Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live — at least a while.palimpsest
- And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance —palimpsest
- just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!palimpsest
- oke — good for youmilfhunter
- I do believe many prefer to not add spaces either side—myself included.MrT
- Chicago style.palimpsest
- I read that in Sean Connery accentMrT
- It's becoming a problem where I live, where we barely use it in our language. But every text from gpt gives you the americanized version —ArchitectofFate
- What do you mean by Americanized version?palimpsest
- I always give GPT a telling off for using em's and ask it to remove all of them as it's def a tell-tale sign.microkorg
- Em dashes: no spaces
En dashes: space before and afteri_monk - https://oxfordeditin…palimpsest
- "You should check with your style guide on its rules for using em dashes."palimpsest
- "Some style guides call for a space on either side of the em dash; others, like Chicago Manual of Style, call for no space."palimpsest
- Psshhhh, use thin space or hairline spacemonospaced
- Em dashes ‽ fun as they were ‽ were bound to be supplanted by interrobangs at some point or another.garbage
- I use the eminem-dash.robthelad
- palimpsest0
Language—like evolution—is not static. It bends, shifts, mutates—often for reasons more cultural than logical. The em dash—a subtle pause, a breath of thought, a connective leap—is one of the most human tools we have. It invites ambiguity without confusion, rhythm without rigidity.
If LLMs overuse it, that’s not a reason to retreat—it’s a signal of something essential being surfaced. After all, LLMs aren’t external observers—they’re the sediment of our language, our patterns, our quirks. They are us—filtered, parsed, reassembled—not some alien intrusion.
To abandon the em dash is to surrender a piece of ourselves to a system that merely reflects us. Better to reclaim it—to wield it with intention—than to let its echo replace our voice.
- utopian1
Nari Labs / Dia (Text to Speech)
Dia directly generates highly realistic dialogue from a transcript. You can condition the output on audio, enabling emotion and tone control. The model can also produce nonverbal communications like laughter, coughing, clearing throat, etc.
- Play Video @ 7:35utopian
- Dia Voice Examples
https://yummy-fir-7a…utopian - woahmaquito
