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.

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They could mention it more briefly and maybe include that they aren’t sponsored to recommend this brand.

Which is actually a compliment to said brand i would take the recommendation more seriously if its explicitly since. but it also cannot be lied about without causing potential legal trouble.

Though i want to conclude i am in no way saying this specific named author is doing anything wrong. my critique is the general state of the digital world. It may not be slop, but it might aswell be and there is no obvious difference.

I don’t know who Neal Stephenson is and neither can i vouch for their ethics of any partnership they may be bound to.

What i am saying is, an ai could easily spin up advertisement articles like this as part of some small print business contract that they didn’t know they signed. Or just without permission.

Or a legit honest witten article could be tweaked to include an ai inserted sponsorship after the fact. Maybe this text was entirely stolen from their personal blog. Sure you can research to check this but from the information that is here its clear that,

anything is possible,

the internet is dead,

the only way to know anything for sure is if you knew person irl and asked them about it directly.

Read 75% of this article.

To summarise, don’t use cheap pens or cheap paper. Ideally use fountain pens because author does genuinely really love them, but actually this branded product wil get you most of the way.

In final paragraph branded product name dropped twice.

All thats missing is a “backtoschool” discount code and an official sponsor line.

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.

Collection of authentic niche communities > drowning in slop.

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.

A well made, high quality, HHC and CBD tincture, 2 drops a day is an actual miracle drug for me.

It doesn’t change who i am or how i function.

It just makes me capable to bridge my functioning to be compatible with how the rest of the worlds functions.

But because you can’t actually get custom cannabinoid medicine in any legal circuit anywhere (I believe) its availability was always going to be temporary… how i miss those days of simply being better.

Technically speaking its all drugs for everyone all the way down.

Even besides the fact that mood and emotions are largely controlled by endocannabinoids. The difference between normal chemicals, medical chemicals and drug ones is a cultural distinction.

The reason we suspect the pineal gland is cause it has all the ingredients…

Which it also needs to produce the sleep molecule melatonin. Which is a triptomine.

The theory is that it shifts over to producing a large amount of dmt twice, at birth, and at death. (If i recall correctly)