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Alessandro Perilli

@giano
11 posts
2024-08-11
Various ethnicities are decently represented in FLUX 1 Dev. However, I noticed that to generate realistic skins for some of them, you have to increase the number of steps quite a lot. Notice the difference between 70 (left) and 40 steps (right). #flux1 [image]
2024-08-11 View on X
Tom's Guide

Flux, an open-source AI image generator from the startup Black Forest Labs, goes viral for creating ultra-realistic images of people

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide :

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2024-04-05
The use of “if” is almost comical. Where else would OpenAI (or anybody else) find a corpus of videos for AI training as large and diverse and labelled except on YouTube?
2024-04-05 View on X
Bloomberg

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini

depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran /...

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2022-07-26
“Documents Show How Roblox Planned to Bend to Chinese Censorship” The story is here: https://www.vice.com/... But the actual presentation from Roblox is way more interesting and a recommended reading: https://www.documentcloud.org/ ...
2022-07-26 View on X
VICE

Internal docs from 2017 show Roblox's plan for expanding into China: censorship compliance, expecting to be hacked and copied by partners like Tencent, and more

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2022-06-22
“Just Walk Out” is the most frictionless and disruptive technology Amazon has ever released. Investors and the general public have yet to realise its enormous potential (for and outside the retail experience). > Look back on 10 years of Amazon robotics https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-06-22 View on X
Vox

An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 discusses running out of potential US warehouse workers to hire by 2024 and suggests some remedies, such as raising wages

Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat.  —  Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …

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2022-05-31
“On May 18, thousands of software developers in China woke up to find that their open-source code hosted on Gitee, a state-backed Chinese competitor to the international code repository platform GitHub, had been locked and hidden from public view.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2022-05-31 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Many developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and code quality

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review :

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2022-04-06
Fun: “customers would deposit collateral in cash or crypto accounts and be responsible for keeping enough to cover margin req. Margin levels would be calculated every 30s. If the margin falls too low, FTX would start liquidating the position in seconds.” https://www.ft.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
Financial Times

How cryptocurrency exchange FTX wants to automate risk management in US futures trading, replacing traditional brokers with its tech, and introduce 24/7 trading

Sam Bankman-Fried cut an unlikely figure as he took the stage on the final morning of this year's big derivatives-industry conference in Boca Raton, Florida. Tweets: @giano , @staf...

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2022-03-16
More than MSFT experimenting with ad-supported Windows, this is MSFT experimenting with what happens when they do what Apple does: promoting their own products/services in iOS core apps (e.g., Settings, App Store) https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-16 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft says an ad in Windows 11 File Explorer “was not intended to be published externally and was turned off” after a Microsoft MVP found it in latest build

We may still see File Explorer ads in the future  —  Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11.

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2021-08-30
This is a must-read article about applied #AI regardless of the sector you work in (but especially important if you are in marketing). How will we sell ourselves in the future? > People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-30 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients

i.e. they scan your face while you make expressions and talk, then they can autogenerate you saying *anything* for ads, promo, customer service, etc: https://www.technologyreview.c...

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2021-08-29
This is a must-read article about applied #AI regardless of the sector you work in (but especially important if you are in marketing). How will we sell ourselves in the future? > People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-29 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients

AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language. Tweets: @strwbilly , @timsowula , @pomeranian99 , @carolhtucker , @gia...

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2021-01-19
I don't want to read too much into it, but it would be very exciting to see this as the first step of @citrix evolution into a different vendor role. > Citrix acquires project management platform Wrike for $2.25 billion https://venturebeat.com/...
2021-01-19 View on X
VentureBeat

Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash

Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion.  —  Founded in 200...

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2019-12-19
Just last month I deleted it. I think I abundantly overpaid for the service received in these years. And like every monopolistic service provider it stopped providing any value to me long ago. > @Facebook accesses your location even when you've opted out https://9to5mac.com/...
2019-12-19 View on X
CNBC

Lawmakers balk after Facebook explains how it collects and monetizes smartphone location data of users who have location tracking turned off for its app

- In response to a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Facebook explained why it tracks users' locations …

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