What professionals are doing this work already? As I understand it, this is something that can only be done by AI (or by shooting the movie twice in different languages).
audio dubbing and voice acting is a thing. They even do it in a way that takes into account the mouth movement length/timing, to make it look slightly more natural a dub.
of course, it's not super good imho, and personally i prefer subtitles with the original audio. Even if ai did a perfect job, including changing the film's frames to suit etc, i dont believe the outcome is sufficient. I want the original actor's voice timbre and intonations, which has meaning, and is lost when translated to a different language.
This is using the original actor. They re-recorded it. The AI just modifies the lips.
From TFA:
> Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English in a sound booth — Flawless AI's technology merely altered the movements of their lips in the movie.
Abuse. Twitter/X allowed bold text recently for a few days, and a number of monetized accounts immediately started making all their posts ALL BOLD ALL THE TIME to stand out. Feature dropped soon after.
The only thing to worry about is if you use the existing process where you buy a book from the Amazon store, download it locally to your computer, then copy the Amazon DRM'd ebook from your computer to your Kindle by USB. The step to download the book from the Kindle store to your computer will be going away, Kindle books from the Kindle store will have to be directly delivered to Kindle devices through either WiFi or cellular.
Being able to generally copy books to your Kindle by USB will not be going away. Books on your Kindle will not be going away, other than the historical reasons why Amazon pulls ebooks from people's devices (but that's not changing at all here). If you have a collection of DRM-free ebooks you can continue to use those and side load those by USB.
Pollock used a lot of connected ink splotches, Steadman's 'inkling' stuff is usually large white-space separated splotches, an effect that is impossible with this tool.
also Steadman moved away from that eventually, whereas Pollock leaned into it until death.
Moreover Pollocks' art was the splotches, whereas it was usually an accoutrement for Steadman around a different -- usually framed -- perspective.
Agreed, super cool project. All it seems like it would need for a full pollock vibe would be a color palette selector. And maybe this audio track on loop and a transparent overlay of animated cigarette smoke. Great url.
He wouldn't have had to resort to complex modes of influence, that's for sure. It's very scary that we've gotten to the point where people are claiming to "protect democracy" by proposing to allow institutions controlled by incumbent politicians to regulate who is allowed to say what in the lead-up to elections.
I have a (USA) digital driver's license that I've presented to TSA via my iPhone a couple of times. It's explicit exactly what information is being shared. You tap (as if to pay), the information being requested displays on the screen, and you double-click to acknowledge and send.
Note: USA "paper" passports have included an RFID chip since 2007.
As a former telephone operator from this era who spent most shifts frantically bubbling scantrons as business men rattled off their calling card numbers and call numbers at lighting speed, I would have been delighted by this break in routine.
It was a paper record of every (paid) phone call. This was in the 80s before the switch to digital. The front side had the origin and destination numbers, the back side had the calling card number.
Also--we didn't use a 10-key! Our keypad was 2x5 rather than 3x3, and inverted (low numbers at the top).
Serious question: why is this bad? Is it just the 3% false negative rate? I don't see the negative privacy implications of face recognition when the alternative is to present your face (via photo ID) anyway.
I enjoy traveling to Berlin for vacation, as it's a totally different atmosphere around privacy. Default payment is cash, your entry and exit from train stations is not tracked (surveilled perhaps, but you do not tap-in/tap-out or god forbid tap your credit card every time you step on a train like SF or NYC), and it's against the law to publish photographs of someone without their consent.
Ask IBM what becomes of databases full of people's names associated with their movements.
I think this is silly given how much Germany is actively helping a country where the PM of that country has an arrest warrant out for him through the ICC.
Germany is still facilitating an alleged genocide. The only thing that has changed is the profile of the victims. The situation now is even worse, given that practically everyone in the world knows what’s happening but life is going on as normal.
You could have made a sensible argument about how security policies in Israel move in a wrong direction, even if it isn't at all on topic. But you stumbled here too.
It is not against the law to publish photographs of someone without their consent. People post me to Instagram without my consent in Berlin all of the time.
I appreciate the response, but it seems that database can be constructed with or without facial recognition because photo ID is already required. So, I ask again, why is this bad?
Showing ID to pass a gate is somewhat different than having a timestamped record of the fact that you passed a gate, but I agree that given it's already surveilled it's not a big difference. Still, small differences add up.
I mean, it was living memory for many HN'ers that you could travel freely in the United States with doing either. It's a post-9/11 thing that an airline ticket is associated with a unique person, and requires a matching photo ID.
There was a time when America's security forces did not routinely surveil its own peoples' movements.
When I was a kid there were classified ads like "Pan Am NYC Dec 20-28, E. Smith, $200 o.b.o" for people who wanted to resell their ticket because they couldn't make the trip. There were no id checks then.
In the 1990s the airplanes jumped at the opportunity to have required id checks so they could take control of the secondary market.
It was still possible to buy a ticket like "E. Smith", but that option was cut off a few years later.
(American here) A quick search shows Pew Research, National Academies Press (associated with the Library Of Congress), AmericaUnderWatch dot com, Politico and Georgetown Law .. all with varying responses to this question. In the case of social structure and law, there are many layers, interwoven, and difficult or impossible to fit into chat-level responses.
Universe was the only series I watched (due to Scalzi being a technical advisor), but I found it infuriating that they let Tim Roth's character continue to have the run of the ship after he proved himself a psychopath.
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