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This AI Can Make Endless Super Mario Bros. Levels With Just A Few Words
The technology we casually refer to as “artificial intelligence” is suddenly everywhere. It’s used to “create” art, dialogue and voice, text, even video games! It’s nigh impossible to escape as we enter a dystopian future in which generative technology seeks to threaten entire livelihoods (including those of Twitch streamers). But sometimes, despite how fraught the…
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AI Explain Why They’re So Bad At Drawing Human Fingers
No matter where you sit on the enormous and complex debate regarding AI models and their use of datasets to generate new images, artworks, writing and even movies, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: they’re damned creepy at drawing human hands. But why? Especially when AIs are so capable of recreating the seemingly far…
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RIP: Programmer ‘Euthanizes’ His $US1,000 ($1,388) AI VTuber ‘Waifu’
You’ve met an AI YouTuber who plays Minecraft and denies the Holocaust. Now meet a fully responsive AI girlfriend who can converse with its user. Except it’s too late to meet her, because its creator recently “euthanised” her for being a detriment to his health. ChatGPT-Chan didn’t even last a month before her creator decided…
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ArtStation Responds To AI Controversy, Makes Things Worse
Both professional and amateur artists alike were united yesterday in protest against ArtStation, the field’s biggest portfolio site, for its seeming inaction against a rising tide of AI-generated imagery washing up on its front page.