We have been the steampunk universe all along!

1. I rarely watch tv cause i can’t pay attention.
2. When watching anything its usually short form content, i keep going back and forward sometimes on (twice speed) and may watch a video over multiple sessions, repeat sections multiple times.
3. i may pause in the middle of watching, a 30 min show, spend and hour researching a tiny detail on my phone and then go back.
4. i cannot pay attention to watch while eating unless its at a desk.
5. i can watch a +1h movie that is interesting enough with others in a single sitting but i will be mentally exhausted and in need of a break after.

Is that really that different?

The article doesn’t go into any length to explain the technology. But assuringly its just an encrypted passcode created with an algorithm using measured face data.

Crafting a secure reliable personal id based on pure visual appearance has been tricky and when this came out i disliked it but it was clearly a feat.

What is the story here?

Google trusting this technology?

Them adding age verification to it?

I am just confused what makes this enough of something to write/post it.

Did i just time travel or is this the feature i have been refusing to use on my phone for almost a decade?

Yeah November 2017; 8 years ago

Is this implemented very different technologically speaking?

The question i have,

The image is digital when it is uploaded. There is a fixed assortiment of pixels only differentiated by the contrast of shades of grey.

The instructions say to colorise.

In my head this means every pixel needs to obtain a color value, while still matching contrast with pixels around it.

What ai does instead is provide an entirely newly constructed image made up from entirely new pixels which show “google deepdream” patterns.

This is from the final result where the author was “happier” with the result and asked what i assume is an llm to not invent information that isn’t there. (Zoom in)

This is not what i would call a colorisation, it’s a colorised re-creation. I imagine a real colorisation as simply a layer of color values that combine with the exact pixels of the digital scan. Disabling that layer (using photo software) should return the exact digital original and turning the final colorisation into a black and white filter should still leave it nearly identical to the original. Anything else is a recreation for fun and fantasy purposes only.

To vent, i am so glad we convinced someone in the family not to use the “ai enhanced” version for a loved ones official funeral picture.

Actually!!

The litter of roombas is rather untidy but assuming they are themselves clean (taken out of the box just for this skit) then the room is not unclean because of their chaos.

I took it as a non serious joke riffing of a common meme.

Paid twice.

US citizens paid Nintendo for raising its prices on them… and the wild part is that it’s not even the corporations exact fault.

The system is designed to have capitalism win.

If i recall it was as an example of how “ai” can be more then just llm chatbots. I thought the com was specifically against llms but they didn’t like general machine learning either.

Long time ago though.

I one got banned from an anti ai com for mentioning video game npc ai.

The message isn’t but

“US Law Enforcement terrorise and kill innocent civilian(s)” sadly is.

I am sorry but It actually kinda looks to me like an ai generated advertisement for this persons book. The adapted from makes me think its not the original text which genuinely feels uncanny and convoluted like ai does.

Are we sure this person is directly involved or was ai generated self authored articles part of the small print of a advertisement contract.

Or are we sure that their qualifications make them really immune to make use of ai like this.

It’s a genuine very good youtube series that is rivalling industrial production quality and popularity, i am just using it as a very twisted example. Dont let my description stop you from watching it. Adc characters are not in any way portrayed in a sexual nature, unless you count this.

The amazing digital circus might thank part of its popularity to the nostalgia of the kidcore aesthetic featured troughout the circus.

The adult lead character pomni appears as a clown with little features that we would objectively associate with an adult wonen besides possessing the clear psychological maturity and intelligence of an adult.

The features of pomni could be described as short stature, a bright childlike color scheme, and large eyes relative to the face, a physiological trait often associated with infancy in mammals.

Now for science, is it pedophia to wank off to amazing digital circus porn of pomni and does it make a difference wether its a visual drawing or a text based work of fiction.

My point is not to convince you of annythhing just that your argument itself easily falls apart once one has to define “childlike features” into a legal/moral setting.

Is it because they depict children or because they depict child like features?

By the first, technically adult characters in a child like body (lucky star) wouldn’t count.

By the second, catgirl cosplay counts as bestiality.

Things get seriously vague once you consider diverse aesthetic cores, like goth loli fashion. also technically is.

Is it pedophilia if you wanna have sex in a ballpit with your adult partner while dressed as clowns while sucking oversized pacifiers? Just asking.

Glad to end it on something we can agree on.

What did you mean with this?

“ It’s ok, be glad you’re clearly too European to get this. Leave the Americans to deal with their problems”

Only way i can read it is to say this problem doesn’t exist in Europe.

I would have assumed the same but the littering of the candy bars was a specific part of the problem.

I have little reason to believe this person was lying, i also don’t want to give to much if their personal detail context online but fair i wasn’t there myself to witness it.

I wasn’t really comparing the severity of drug problems in the US vs Europe.

Just that the phenomenon is not exclusive to the US just like being naive about drugs isn’t exclusive to Europe.

I ve heard from someone in europe how a shopkeeper frequently has candy bars stolen.

The candy gets tossed on the street, its the foil they want.