That's a pretty generous take on the situation. Sam Altman isn't some robin hood character taking from the rich to give to the poor. If AI companies can keep operating with impunity, taking as much data as they want with no compensation for the creators, or consequence for infringement, that's not good.
I agree that the technology is great, and it will empower small creators, but I'm also worried about the cowboy behaviour of all these tech billionaires.
In this context they aren't "creators" because they don't create anything. These actors are not being compensated, b/c they're not actually performed any additional work or doing any acting
If you record my voice at a conference and then create a synthetic replica.. why would I care? You didn't make me do any additional work or anything
Look, we're all just wearing these meat bags for a little while. I personally don't know anyone who would care if I was deep-faked in a porn, it wouldn't have any professional consequences (why would my boss, or friends for that matter, watch it in the first place?), and ultimately it's as ficticious as Lord of the Rings. Really, people get too riled up about salacious bits in the first place while we're on the subject.
So what if someone made a digital twin out of you, and started using you in other work? Suddenly you're being used in commercials, political campaigns, spam, or whatever.
I'm not buying that people here are "fine" with this. This is one of those things people might be fine with, until they find themselves in that exact spot.
Now, what kind of people will find themselves in that spot? Celebrities, obviously.
One thing is being used in material that will defame your character (spam, fraud, porn, whatever) - another thing is to be used in material that will potentially take away your livelihood.
If someone clone, say, Tom Cruise - and makes a movie with his digital twin, he sure as shit is entitled to royalties for that. People go to see the movie because they think it is Tom Cruise, not because it's some generic AI avatar of him.
> I'm not buying that people here are "fine" with this. This is one of those things people might be fine with, until they find themselves in that exact spot.
I'm gonna suggest that people who are blase about this issue are comfortable in the knowledge that it will never affect them. HN contributors might have 99+ problems, but being lusted over by the internet at large isn't one of them.
Sorry, but I've been told almost 12x12 times(or more) that "you look familiar, like so-and-so"(where so-and-so has ranged from local friends to celebrities). I don't take any effort to look like anybody. I don't care about the poor celebrities; they make the choice to put themselves in the public eye, and frankly we could stand to have fewer of them. If someone defames my character, I can take legal action if I felt inclined to do so, and that's okay, that's why we have a system of law.
> I can take legal action if I felt inclined to do so, and that's okay, that's why we have a system of law.
So you basically are saying that in these cases law system should have a precedent against deepfakes so that you would be to able to argue on some basis against deepfakes made off of you.
The people now getting concerned about this are setting those precedents, so that when shit hits the fan in your life (it probably won't), you will have an easier path in the court.
I'm most worried about bad precedent being set, yes. I'm far more likely to go into voice acting and be negatively affected by these kinds of things, than for it to be something I need for my likeness protection.
In the case of a pornographic video there is no issue if it's clear from the context or content that it isn't actually me doing what's in the video
When you talk to ChatGPT, I don't actually think Scarlett Johansson is speaking to me
If I make a fake phone call recording with her synethetic voice and claim it's real and it somehow hurts her then that's an issue - but that's a different legal matter entirely
Not the person you replied to, but IMO it depends.
My reaction would never be "we must make it so people can't do deepfakes anymore". That would cause people to stop using it for positive/benign things as well. If someone is spreading deepfake porn of someone, and you could make the case that they are doing so in order to harm that person's reputation, then legal action would make sense, I think.
> My reaction would never be "we must make it so people can't do deepfakes anymore". That would cause people to stop using it for positive/benign things as well.
Are there actually any "benign" uses for deepfakes?
Making videos of politicians doing goofy things. Say, Donald Trump scoring a goal in the UEFA Champions League. Or 'deepfakes' involving their pets doing something funny.
(No no, you're perfectly right [except perhaps about "the technology is great, and it will empower small creators"], but yagotta admit, your example in justaposition with your user id is funny.)
We use this for running an old version of 16-bit Protel EDA on our work computers.
(Initially, I had setup a windows XP VM for this purpose, but it turned out to be a lot of friction for users, as well as requiring an annoying amount of setup)
Generally WineVDM works very well for running Protel with a few visual bugs.
I do component purchasing for a small electronics manufacturer. It's been a hellish time looking for alternatives, trying to compare crappy data sheets (that often miss key specs) and trying to get one part from multiple sources.
Octopart has been key in this process but it can't fix supply chain issues like these. Luckily there are drop-in alternatives available for the 1N4148.
Shortages on specialty parts like high power transistors - we often don't have a drop in alternative and end up having to redesign whole PCBs around a different part.
There are other component issues too - long lead times and ridiculous pricing on connectors (amphenol, huber + suhner), but that wasn't too unusual before the pandemic.
I'd love to hear how you integrated a Java and TCL backend with spreadsheets. I'm assuming this isn't something you can do with excel?
(Logistics at the small business I work at, is run on a mess of excel spreadsheets with complicated formulas and occasionally VBA for some email functionality. I have a feeling we're doing things horribly wrong, but I don't know of any better way to do things with our zero IT budget.)
I did not leverage any VBA or VB. I learned to code in VBA and written way too much code in that space and was well aware of the limitations.
I'm pretty sure the way it went was, on check-in of a new version, I had a Java program that read the spreadsheet validated that all the right sheets were there and that the columns on each sheet conformed with the spec and also validated rows of data. The sheets were translated on each front end node for easy access.
Regarding the expression engine, the the expressions themselves were then translated into TCL boolean expressions. The attributes for the related objects where already loaded into memory into dictionaries and then the expressions were just evaluated to get a boolean result.
I don’t know if it’s incompetence or ignorance but Spotify has some of the worst apps going around. Remember the bad old days when the UI didn’t even support rotation on phones?
It's funny - I haven't tried Spotify in years so I have no idea if it's still bad - simply because Spotify burned their goodwill with me as a customer because of how bad their Android app was in the first year or so of their US launch.
Spotify is supported by some 3rd party DJing apps which would need access to the PCM stream (pacemaker and I think edjing). However they probably have some kind of secret licencing deal/API access.
I thought the point of PWA would be ‘free’ compatibility with every OS that can run PWA. Checking for several different APIs and using the appropriate one seems counter to this.
I agree that the technology is great, and it will empower small creators, but I'm also worried about the cowboy behaviour of all these tech billionaires.