On one hand: oh nooo, a network was trained on intellectual property, this is completely unprecedented and a big deal somehow.
On the other hand: the company itself using that for commercial purposes, like a promotional event, and tacitly admitting they’re ripping off exactly one person, is not gonna go down the same way as an image generator that occasionally gives mice big black ears.
After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the...
The acquisition of a 25-square-meter flat has provided Gong with a sense of liberation, as she now spends two days a week at the property, enjoying solitude.
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances....
Atari was purchased by Warner in 1976, before the 2600 was a thing. Warner eventually cracked them in half and sold the home-gizmo division to Jack Tramiel in 1984, after the 2600 was wrecked by shovelware. The remaining arcade division was sold to Williams in 1996.
The home division released a fascinating variety of consoles and microcomputers which all bombed. Their hail-Mary was the Jaguar. That’s how bad it got. Hasbro bought that wreck of a company, struggled, and spun it off into its own company, which bombed. Hard drive manufacturer JTS bought that wreck of a company for reasons I’ve never understood. French studio Infogrames bought JTS for the Atari brand, wore it like a dead skin mask, made a few notable titles like Gauntlet Legends, got stuck in a death spiral of hocking classic IP to stay solvent, and bombed. Some middle-eastern tech-bro collective bought that wreck of a company for the Atari brand, spent a decade in vapor-ware hell, clunked out a weird PC nobody bought, and bombed.
The arcade division under Warner did quite well after 1984 and released a bunch of games you’ve probably heard of. Eventually “Time Warner Interactive” was purchased by Midway (which was owned by Bally (which was owned by Williams)) and released even more games you’ve probably heard of. That lasted until arcades stopped existing, at which point, it bombed. A decade later, Warner bought them again, through the purchase of Midway’s assets, but made no effort to re-use the brand. They just wanted Mortal Kombat.
This Atari - the one that recently released a vaguely-admirable home gizmo that’s basically a Raspberry Pi running Stella - is the finance-bro shell company that apparently found more money under a couch cushion. And they spent some of it buying back classic franchises? Bravo, I suppose. They’re still precariously close to being a bombed-out wreck of a company… again.
I swear, that logo is like a cursed artifact in a horror movie. You know it kills companies. But they can’t help themselves. Seventh time’s the charm! So they put it on, and oh no, everything went wrong somehow. Who could have seen this coming?
You’d figure “CSAM” was clear enough. You’d really figure. But apparently we could specify “PECR” for “photographic evidence of child rape” and people would still insist “he drew PECR!” Nope. Can’t. Try again.
Years ago I found myself explaining to Chinese Room dinguses - in a neural network, the part that does stuff is not the part written by humans.
I’m not sure it’s meaningful to say this sort of AI has source. You can have open data sets. (Or rather you can be open about your data sets. I don’t give a shit if LLMs list a bunch of commercial book ISBNs.) But rebuilding a network isn’t exactly a matter of hitting “compile” and going out for coffee. It can take months, and the power output of a small city… and it still can’t be exact. There’s so much randomness involved in the process that it’d be iffy whether you get the same weights twice, even if you built everything around that goal.
Saying “here’s the binary, do whatever” is honestly a lot better for neural networks than for code, because it’s not like the people who made it know how it works either.
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After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the...
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Stressed Out Mom Buys $69K Flat For Herself; Takes A Break From Family Twice A Week (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The acquisition of a 25-square-meter flat has provided Gong with a sense of liberation, as she now spends two days a week at the property, enjoying solitude.
Supreme Court approves South Carolina congressional map previously found to dilute Black voting power (www.cnn.com)
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances....
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US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges (www.theguardian.com)
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