“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”

Also Microsoft…

Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy

I know the genie’s out of the bottle, but goddamn.

Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?

Freddie, this is your mom. Look all I want for my birthday is for you to please start using teams new. It’s so much better than teams classic. I alread… Microsoft already installed it for you. Okay honey? And could you also start using a microsoft.com account so you can get financially hooked like all the Gmail users? It’s pretty smart. Don’t you want to be smart like Jonny? Tata!

A long time ago, someone from a not free country wrote a white paper on why we should care about privacy, because written words can be edited to level false accusations (charges) with false evidence. This chills me to the bone.

Microsoft’s research teams always makes some pretty crazy stuff. The problem with Microsoft is that they absolutely suck at translating their lab work into consumer products. Their labs publications are an amazing archive of shit that MS couldn’t get out the door properly or on time. Example - multitouch gesture UIs.

As interesting as this is, I’ll bet MS just ends up using some tech that Open AI launches before MS’s bureaucratic product team can get their shit together.

This is why I don’t post my picture online and I never talk to anyone ever, while hiding my head inside a nylon stocking (unrelated).

Since it’s trained on celebrities, can it do ugly people or would it try to make them prettier in animation?

The teeth change sizes, which is kinda weird, but probably fixable.

It’s not too hard to notice for an up close face shot, but if it was farther away it might be hard - the intonation and facial expressions are spot on. They should use this to re-do all the digital faces in Star Wars.

The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.

These vids are just off enough that I think doing a bunch of mushrooms and watching them would be a deeply haunting experience

I mean, I know it’s scary, but I’ll admit it is impressive, even when I watched it with jaded “every day is another AI breakthrough” exhaustion.

The subtle face movements, eyebrow expression, everything seems to correctly infer how the face would articulate those specific words. When you think of how many decades something like this would be in the uncanny valley even with a team of trained people hand -tweaking the image and video, and this is doing it better in nearly every way, automatically, with just an image? Insane.

Can we maybe stop making these? XD

Combine this with an LLM with speech-to-text input and we could create a talking paintings like in harry potter movies. Heck, hang it on a door and hook it with smart lock to recreate the dorm doors in harry potter and see if people can trick it to open the door.

Paranoia vibes starting in 3, 2, 1…