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Re:Seedance 2.5 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:43AM (#49145605)
>and yet we can still look at it and say "yeah that was CGI".

All of it?

Re:Seedance 2.5 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:44AM (#49145137)
It doesn't lack those voiced lines because of some purposeful artistic goal.
>"privately" was off which is why it says "more privately" now

The actually significant change is the addition of "This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google."

Which was obvious to anyone with basic tech knowledge already.

>Because it's the same company that was promising the privacy.

But WHICH privacy? It never promised that websites won't know who you are, you can still login into websites, you're still in the same IP. Should it automatically disable all cookies and route you through seven proxies so you can be truly "private"?

"Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity. However, downloads and bookmarks will be saved."

Can you tell me how the original Incognito mode disclaimer was misleading?

Even if it is detectable it shouldn't be detected, why would I want websites to act differently when I'm in private mode?

And if it did block Google's services from capturing the same data as they capture in non-private mode it would act as a sort of ad blocker, why should that be a function of private mode?

What Google was "caught" doing was exactly what it was doing in non-incognito mode already. Anyone expecting the websites you visit to know you're in private mode and to not log data is just lacking basic tech knowledge.

It is silly that Google had to explicitly state that in the disclaimer.

Re:Mullvad VPN: "This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt." on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:26PM (#46348090)
I'm curious, what would you personally consider to be a step too far in the fight against CSAM?
Re:The disguised return of EU Chat Control on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:23PM (#45931739)
How Could You Possibly Be Against This?!?!? Regulation
I use Firefox with uBlock and besides a couple of times where video start was delayed by a few seconds it has been working as well as before.
Section breaks keep the formatting changes from affecting the previous/following content so you can place and format images as you wish.
Re:GPT-5 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:53PM (#44829536)
I've seen that sentiment on reddit as well and I can't phantom how you think it being on purpose is more likely than a mistake when

1 - The error is so blatantly large

2 - There is a graph without error right next to it

3 - The errors are not there in the system card and the presentation page

Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:50PM (#41543291)
Sure but "Also the the sora videos are proven to be modified ads" is demonstrably false, for the demos OpenAI shared and the artist made ones.
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:30AM (#41531099)
Oh, so not the actual demo videos OpenAI shared on their website and twitter.
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Thursday September 12, 2024 @05:03PM (#41525542)
> Also the the sora videos are proven to be modified ads

Can't find anything about that, you got a link?

Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:39PM (#41314886)
MJ coomers? The same MJ that bans accounts for coomer content?

Not sure that will change just because of a new frontend.

Re:Stable Audio Open on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:03PM (#40591647)
> What is ultimately going to be undefeated is training your own model.

From scratch?

Re:VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-Rich Video Super-Resolution on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:23PM (#40148456)
Seems to be stock footage, is it surprising makeup would be involved?
It is very obvious that the amount and type of damage is not the same if you clone any random person's voice or clone a political leader's voice.

It is not the same damage.

Re:OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us' on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @11:37AM (#39526115)
> Even if it takes a thousand tries, that means one out of thousand users would get it.

If they use that particular prompt that primes the model for regurgitation.

It's not one in a thousand of regular queries.

Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:47PM (#39421800)
It is clear you're arguing from an emotional, not logical, standpoint where facts don't matter.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:59AM (#39418679)
How can we disagree on facts? There are no billionaires just sitting on billions. They are in circulation.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:03AM (#39409476)
Believe it or not billionaires are part of the public and those billions are in circulation. There are no dragons sitting on hoards of gold.

More importantly: money that is not in circulation doesn't affect you or me, it has the same weight on the economy as all the gold still not mined.

Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:59PM (#39388760)
> I've yet to be confused about whether something is ai generated or real for more than several seconds.

How did you rule out survivorship bias?

Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:50PM (#39388613)
This issue here is thinking you, holding the knowledge to 3D model, are not also a holder of capital. Capital isn't just money.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Thursday February 15, 2024 @12:02PM (#39385148)
> but it's not a problem our economy seems equipped to solve

It's not a problem at all in my opinion.

> Since people like working on art projects, people will often line up to do so even when conditions and pay don't economically square with their effort.

The pay has only to be accepted to be fair. You're free to start your own production company that pays more "fairly" but you'll find yourself with fewer opportunities to give people this "awe" than the company that can finance more projects.

> To benefit from this vocational awe

Warner Bros. is losing money by scrapping the movie, how are they benefiting in this case?

Re:Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:22AM (#39371708)
Is a farmer exploiting somebody's need for food?
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @09:05AM (#39357703)
Money isn't consumed and it only has value when used.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:29PM (#39350784)
Neither are the things in question, the resources for movie making are not public, crew isn't public, actors aren't public. It's not a public resource in any way.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:33AM (#39344097)
"the public" and "public" are two different things. the labor and resource markets are private, not public.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Monday February 12, 2024 @05:05AM (#39343267)
The penalty is that they lose money at the end of the day. It is not a sustainable business practice.
Re:Deleting and destroying finished movies on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:55AM (#39343205)
> wastes the time and effort of everyone involved in the production with no recourse

Those people were already paid for their work.

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