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Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by aaroninsf on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:44PM (#41468207)
Either this is the commercialization of the work of that project, by authors or collaborators,

or it is appears to be a straight up grift, wrapping someone else's work with a SPA website.

I don't see other possibilities.

Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by sidneyprimas on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:51PM (#41468275)
We are not related to Loopy Avatar. We trained our own models. It's a coincidence that they launched yesterday.

In the AI/research community, people often try to use the same examples so that it's easier to compare performance across different models.

Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by echelon on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:14PM (#41468467)
You should watch out for Hedra and Sync. Plus a bunch of Loopy activity on Discord.
Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by ricardobeat on Friday September 06, 2024 @02:58PM (#41468797)
These papers are simply using each other's examples to make performance comparisons possible.

This is EMO from 6 months ago: https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/

Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by zaptrem on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:53PM (#41468288)
I know these guys in real life, they've been working on this for months and, unlike the ByteDance paper, have actually shipped something you can try yourself.
Re:Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak by robertlagrant on Saturday September 07, 2024 @08:19AM (#41473503)
Not seeing other possibilities isn't great though, right? Clearly there are other possibilities.