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Reality beats AI (quokk.au)
submitted 6 months ago by [A] to c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Reality beats AI
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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Faceapp is AI. It uses a convolutional neural network to detect facial features, rigs those onto a model, applies a morph to that model, and then uses a convolutional neural network to translate that model into facial features.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    So it’s the good kind of AI? A specialized model, trained for a particular purpose?
    At least it’s not an LLM.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Tools aren't good or bad. Even nukes could probably be used to blow up asteroids of something.

    The issue is capitalism and the people who serve it without regard for the ecosystem and humanity.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Project Plowshare tried and failed to do something useful with nukes

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    My point was that it's conceivable to even use nukes for good, not that anyone ever achieved that.

    I wanted to imply by contrast that it's much easier to acknowledge that there are useful applications of LLMs irrespective of the current insanity pushed by tech companies.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Much of it is the same technology that is used to make AI images. The same datacenter usage, water consumption, rare earth mining pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, helium consumption, GPU demands, unethical data sourcing, and slavery-adjacent "mechanical turk" data labeling practices.

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