VG: Opinions and Propaganda
Phil Spencer may be the one that destroys Xbox.
A lawsuit is coming for game makers that accuses them of making addictive practices to make more money. The response has been, “you can't sue us for making good games”.
This could be in AI or XR, but it starts about Videogames. Basically, you can predict things based on how it happened with videogames. Since tech and entertainment tend to be ahead of the market, and videogames are both, you can see what happens years ahead of what will happen with the general public.
Interview with women who work at Mojang. Buzzfeed article says diversity will help us all.
Why I stopped being a framerate snob… advert for Steam deck
33 games not on Switch
How Sweet Baby Inc ruined a game called Flintlock
A business model designed to milk small amounts of players, rather than selling well overall. Comparison to the Cable channel model.
Peter Moore doesn't think consoles should be a thing anymore. He should know, he killed the Dreamcast and led XBox. At the moment he leads Unity. The guy who looks like Satan should totally be believed.
VG: Business
Toys for Bob is making their own game. They usually make them by assignment, and have been very successful at it. The NFC toy games were started by them, and they created Tony Hawk Downhill Jam.
Nintendo restructures it's testing department
Gearbox started firing people as soon as it was bought by Embracer
Skull and Bones is slashed by $25 after three weeks on sail
Monopoly Go had a nearly half a billion promotional budget.
Activision QA has a large union now
Yellow Brick hints at the game they are making.
BioWare had an online game store that could have sold the Witcher and other big games. They didn't, and feel dumb now.
I don't know where to put this one, PC Rig news. It's all too expensive for me.
Valve created an orb for video making using steam decks they had lying around. Half Life 3 is still not released.
Falconeer is actually part of a game trilogy where each game is a different type, and they all tell the same story.
Capcom raises salaries in tough times
More Remedy games are planned
New MMO allows you to Bot the game, so every player has bots and the bot becomes part of the game.
Relic entertainment sold by SEGA
Russia wants to make it's own home console.
_B: Sony
Sony does not rise to the victory expected
You can own a bobblehead of Jim Ryan, the boss at PlayStation
PS5 was the top seller in February, but that's after console sale shrinkage. Helldiver's 2 is the best selling game.
_B: Warner Bros keeps on losing path
Warner Bros Gaming would rather commit suicide squad than make another successful Harry Potter game.
They really want that Fortnite style money
_B: XBox Exclusives and ports
Phil Spencer speculates about exclusives actually being needed anymore. He even wants Epic on Xbox
Some publishers and designers don't feel like making games for XBOX anymore. It's an attempt to create controversy.
_B: Unreal Engine Payment
Epic Games will start charging companies for use of their movie making and architecture displays.
More on the changes to the payment system
ESports to have a lot more consolidation
_B: EA Losses
EA drops star wars games and fires 650
EA is looking away from licensed games
_B: Saber Sold
Embracer sells Saber interactive along with other companies. This includes Metro series and new Warhammer 40k Space marine game
Space Marine is still being made
It's being delayed though
VG: Rumours
The Switch 2 could be announced in June
PS5 Pro
Dead Space 2 Remake
Handheld Xbox?
_R: SEGA
Streets of Rage and Virtual Fighter getting new games.
Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi are unreal engine remakes
VG: Design
A bit of detail on why Agent by Rockstar was dropped. They just didn't have the manpower to do it.
Free beginners course for Unreal Engine
Square Enix translators used Shakespearean English to make it feel more medieval. He was late Renaissance and was very flowery.
_D: Princess Peach and Goemon
The director of Princess Peach hasn't directed a game since Mystical Ninja Goemon for the N64.
The last classic Goemon was made a long time ago, and for the PlayStation
https://youtu.be/B_tcVhXyMLw?si=CAD77UGZXWkrU4ie
But, there is a spiritual successor by the same company that made the Princess Peach game.
_D: GDC
When to make your own game engine. A GDC speech
Subscription trends for World of Warcraft
How to promote a game through steam
Graphics discussions and how they are implemented
Level Design mentorship
Web3 Games Suck is a great way to get attention for your Web3 games
How to survive the gaming hell scape as an indie. Be small and adaptable.
Artsy indie games at GDC
_GDC: Wrap up Articles
Look at GDC after it ends
5 takeaways from GDC. It's a good article and does show the problems the industry is dealing with.
Almost 30,000 visited GDC
_GDC: Scream
A group go together to start
Screaming in a park
_GDC: Zelda
Nintendo told the director of Breath of the Wild his game was coming to Switch in an email
How they had to create multiple physics engines for Tears of the Kingdom. This meant the game had sounds not created by anyone.
_GDC: AAA and Creativity
It costs too much to be creative in the AAA field.
Maybe AAA deserves to die. Corporations are greedy! Become an indie!
_GDC: Unity
An overview of the Unity Presentation
The Unity Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9AGkB9nnkc
_GDC: Unreal
Unreal Engine 5.4 presentation
Here's the entire speech for Unreal Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVoQ5AH_wxI
The official webpage talking about it
Major optimizations
Elon Musk made an appearance
Fortnite will be from a nerfed unreal engine, fans are disappointed
Another outline of the presentation
_D: avid Lynch
David Lynch’s influence on videogames. He made Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Dune, and Eraserhead.
The influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda. The one where Link is in a dream world, the entire set up was based on the ideas from the show. Bob was no present.
Videogames
Remnant Protocol is a flight battle game that lets you upgrade and fund research for better rigs.
A colony building game called First Dwarf lets you play a dragon.
Artifact Seeker is designed to challenge Vampire Survivors
Outer Terror is a horror horde shooter with references to classic monsters. It can be played co-op or solo and has characters to choose from.
Marvel Rivals is a 6v6 character battle game
Build a city with actual equipment and design knowledge in The Constructors
Starship Simulator is exactly what it's named with some nice graphics to boot
Wild Bastards is a rogue like multi character FPS strategy game. It has colors, characters, and a bit of insanity
Empire of the Ants is an RTS game about ant wars
Luna Abyss is a Bullet Hell FPS
The Sinking City 2 has been announced
Sworn is a co-op for up to 4 players in a dark Arthurian legend styled rogue like
Project Birdseye is a twin stick action shooter set in the Callisto Protocol universe.
Dustborn gets some praise for its demo.
Zoochosis is a first person puzzle solving horror game.
Sixty Four is a computer designing game that can absorb your soul.
The Night Wanderer is a dark exploration game.
Gameplay overview of Judas by Bioshock creators
Unreal Physics is purely to show off Unreal Engine 5 Physics in a game
Weird Indie game Animal Well took years to make.
The Hayseed Knight is a beautiful visual novel with hand drawn looks
Tales of Iron 2 is a sequel and a 2D RPG side scroller
Raw Metal is a stealth fighting game. That's a weird description and weirder game. If you can get the drop on your opponent, you have their health. If they get the drop on you, they will be twice as hard.
Hellgate London gets a sequel after a few decades
A Metroidvania by CERN physicists called Exographer
Pixel Primal is about a caveman protecting his family from dinosaurs and aliens. It's a single creator game, and falls into the Metroidvania flavor.
Uforia: the saga 2 is a sequel of a game that came out in the 80’s. The style is Yoshi Story 64 and has a lot of interesting tricks.
VG: Old School Racing
Old School Racer has PS1 style graphics and feel
Yellow Taxi goes Vroom is an N64 like platformer with no jump button.
VG: Multi game articles
A bunch of articles on new games. The titles are Far Cry meets Fuzzle Wuzzle in this perfect metroidvania RPG. Good games, bad sensationalist titles. Games are Sand, Ashfall, Rooted, A Silent Desolation, and Serum.
Another set of articles on multiple games. Bitcraft is a an adventure explorer. Once Human is an open World exploration shooter. Enshrouded is a multiplayer survival game. Ashfall is a robot world fallout game. The Night Wanderer is a souls like action RPG.
Several articles on Witcher game series. Apparently Witcher 4 may not have Geralt, but most articles talk about a new adventure for him.
15 favorite games at PAX East
VG: Updates, DLC, Remakes
Enshrouded gets more dungeons and characters
Max Payne is getting a remake
KeeperRL is a fortress dungeon maker that just hit 1.0
Age of Empires 2 gets DLC. It's about vikings and samurai.
Team Fortress 2 allows 100 players
Star Ocean game gets tons of added material for 1.1
No Man’s Sky gets an orbital update
Militsioner is a game where you are trying to escape a giant police man. An update adds flooding that increases with time
Call of Duty gets Space Marines from 40K
Vampire Survivors gets two new characters and a few new weapons
VG: Felix the Cat Collection
Felix the cat gets a collection
It's only two games, and they aren't the greatest.
VG: Creatures of Ava
Creatures of Ava is a nicer PalWorld
Another article on the cozy PalWorld
VG: Industria 2
Industria 2 looks more like a mod
More on the graphics of the game
VG: Europa Delay
The game is an open world exploration game about a boy exploring a terraformed moon. The art style is beautiful so it's on a lot of radars
Sadly the game was delayed till this summer
VG: V Uprising Castlevania
Uprising gets Castlevania Add On
https://youtu.be/rPrINI85szg?si=CKv5O1TGKNcpEVfp
Here is an article for the DLC
VG: IGN Fan Fest
_IGNFF: Cartoons
IGN is having a big show for games called FN Fest. The games separate between dark and gritty, then cartoon like. The Noble Squire let's the player do levels in a cartoonist picture book, and then jump out into the real world
Bō is a hand drawn Metroidvania based on Japanese culture.
#Blud is a dungeon crawler life sim with the look of an afternoon cartoon show
GI Joe beaten up game
Hintenberg is a life sim dungeon explorer. It reminds me of the show Hilda.
Turbo Kid is a Metroidvania game about a kid on a bike. It's dark, but cartoonish.
_IGNFF: Dark
The other one is dark, horror, and has a high chance of shooting a gun. Survival is important. Harvest Hunt has you survive in a land haunted by monsters
Once Human gets another awesome trailer. It's a horror hunting game with friends. I've written about it before.
Outbreak Island is a survival horror game where you can update your car.
The Forever Winter is a dark swarm shooter
Kingmakers is a medieval battle RTS sim that lets you choose a warrior to play in the middle of the battle. Then it throws tanks, trucks, and attack helicopters in as well.
VG: Nintendo Direct
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is another story of the series
Contra: Operation Galuga. I played the demo. It has an arcade and story mode. There are extra moves and options for the players. The graphics are fun, and you have infinite continues.
Endless Ocean is a relaxing exploration game under the ocean. If you fall asleep while playing, you are doing it right.
Disney Epic Mickey is getting a remake. Hopefully the controls work better this time.
Penny’s Big Breakaway is a Sonic Adventure style game with collecting and high air movements. It was released as the Nintendo Direct was being presented.
Star Wars Battlefront collection is the first two games, plus some mods. These were awesome games back in the day, and I am happy they are hitting Switch.
The Nintendo Direct has Mother 3 released in Japan only. So, there are tutorials on how to play it on your American switch. Step one, have a Japanese account…
_ND: Rare
Rare Software games are being released for the SNES, Nintendo, and N64 apps on Switch. I hope Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark get released soon. There were already a few games, but Microsoft is just giving up now.
There are 6 games made by Rare that aren't released for the Switch N64 app.
Another list of rare games released
_ND: Ender Magnolia
Ender Lilies gets a sequel
An article praising the news
The state of the industry does not look good, especially in the AAA world.
Gearbox started firing people as soon as it was bought by Embracer
Nintendo restructures it's testing department
Skull and Bones is slashed by $25 after three weeks on sail
Relic entertainment sold by SEGA
_B: EA Losses
EA drops star wars games and fires 650
EA is looking away from licensed games
_B: Saber Sold
Embracer sells Saber interactive along with other companies. This includes Metro series and new Warhammer 40k Space marine game
Space Marine is still being made
It's being delayed though
They don't seem to care either.
Valve created an orb for video making using steam decks they had lying around. Half Life 3 is still not released.
Activision QA has a large union now
_B: Warner Bros keeps on losing path
Warner Bros Gaming would rather commit suicide squad than make another successful Harry Potter game.
They really want that Fortnite style money
This has made them lean into the DEI money like Sweet Baby Inc
How Sweet Baby Inc ruined a game called Flintlock
Interview with women who work at Mojang. Buzzfeed article says diversity will help us all.
It also means companies leaning into milking the existing player base Instead of trying to grow it.
A lawsuit is coming for game makers that accuses them of making addictive practices to make more money. The response has been, “you can't sue us for making good games”.
Why I stopped being a framerate snob… advert for Steam deck
A business model designed to milk small amounts of players, rather than selling well overall. Comparison to the Cable channel model.
This has meant the Game Developer Conference has some awkwardness.
_GDC: AAA and Creativity
It costs too much to be creative in the AAA field.
Maybe AAA deserves to die. Corporations are greedy! Become an indie!
_GDC: Scream
A group go together to start
Screaming in a park
Meanwhile Monopoly Go has a huge publicity budget.
Monopoly Go had a nearly half a billion promotional budget.
And Toys for Bob is finally making their own game
Toys for Bob is making their own game. They usually make them by assignment, and have been very successful at it. The NFC toy games were started by them, and they created Tony Hawk Downhill Jam.
Also, Capcom has raised the pay of their employees.
Capcom raises salaries in tough times
So there is a silver lining.
I'm posting info I found interesting while making my link list last month. This article corresponds to Sony and Microsoft talking about going third party, and the GDC article I will be writing later this.
Phil Spencer says he wants Epic marketplace on the XBox.
XBox Exclusives and ports
Phil Spencer speculates about exclusives actually being needed anymore. He even wants Epic on Xbox
Some publishers and designers don't feel like making games for XBOX anymore. It's an attempt to create controversy.
Phil Spencer isn't looking that good in general though
Phil Spencer may be the one that destroys Xbox.
But it's not like the guy he replaced has any better opinions.
Peter Moore doesn't think consoles should be a thing anymore. He should know, he killed the Dreamcast and led XBox. At the moment he leads Unity. The guy who looks like Satan should totally be believed.
It's not like Sony is doing any better.
Sony does not rise to the victory expected
You can own a bobblehead of Jim Ryan, the boss at PlayStation
PS5 was the top seller in February, but that's after console sale shrinkage. Helldiver's 2 is the best selling game.
Meanwhile Nintendo is getting more games for the Switch. Even old Rare games are showing up on the console. In a Nintendo Direct they announced even more
_ND: Rare
Rare Software games are being released for the SNES, Nintendo, and N64 apps on Switch. I hope Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark get released soon. There were already a few games, but Microsoft is just giving up now.
There are 6 games made by Rare that aren't released for the Switch N64 app.
Another list of rare games released
In fact, the biggest complaint is that the Switch needs even more games.
33 games not on Switch
It does look like the console wars are going cold.
AI: Business
Jeff Bezos and other big names are investing in a humanoid worker bot company. This could be in tech, but all of the claims are based on AI.
How AI is helping eco tourism. It's more about tourism in general.
NVidia gives blueprint for data centers of the future
Microsoft Copilot will be in regular PCs next year. Intel confirmed it.
OpenAI decides to keep Brockman after review
Several companies are going after NVidia software to stop their own decline.
AI may interview you for a job soon
Tumblr is making deals to use art from its website for AI
_B: Stability Inc
MidJourney bans Stability AI workers from its servers because they were stealing stuff to improve their own AI
Stability AI has major people leaving it. The article reads like it was paid for by Open AI.
The CEO of stability is leaving. He wants the company to go into the black and hates centralized AI
More stories on the company not doing well. This is a big AI imaging group, and it looks like others are trying to destroy them.
A long article about Stability falling apart.
AI: Papers
Diffusion World Models is an attempt to create a standard for training data on how the world looks
ASCII art hacks AI
How about an AI that insults you and does what it wants? A paper proposes making one
Adversarial Attacks on LLMs
A long article explaining how diffusion models work
AI teaching other AI is now possible
Fine-tuning LLM by pruning layers
Emergent Behavior by LLMs is predictable
LoRa Hub is a cross task AI
New matrix systems maths discovers easier way to analyze in AI
Single step creation
LLMs are so complex, most people don't know how they are doing what they are doing. There is new research studying it as a natural phenomenon instead of a constructed one
Transparent Layers!
https://arxiv.org/html/2402.17113v1
LLMs use linear functions to decide what to use.
_P: Fun Names
ZigZag Mamba is a more efficient diffusion model
StableDrag let's you move characters with a mouse in AI images to do what you want. The lion will turn it's head, or the building will swivel based on use.
SDXS is a Diffusion Model designed to make images in a second
SwitchLight has better physics and training for human lighting
_P: Chemical Design
Dual Diffusion systems in creating new chemical drugs
Machine Learning for Beer design
Using ChatGPT for RNA sequence analysis
AI: 3D
CSM AI lets you create and edit 3D creations using AI. Then you can animate and even render them using the same website. This link is the best I could find on the subject. The announcement is huge, but getting to it is hard.
Vast Gaussian for large model creation
3D point cloud systems and Blender. Could be in general 3D
A quick intro to NeRF studio
Kiri engine turns Gaussian Splats into PLY models
RadSplat is an updated efficiency system using Gaussian Splatting.
Stability AI has a new image to 3D system that can be run on your computer. Not mine, it's a potato, but yours would be great.
A long list of 3D AI projects
3D AI has gotten a lot more control for it, including changing the textures.
Latte3D makes a character in seconds
AI: Video
HUGS Human Gaussian Splatting lets you make a rendered version of yourself or others for a 3D character
Haiper is a new video creator.
Motion Latent Decomposition
Stability AI video creation
TRIP, pretraining images for video
A long article on the future of AI Video
_V: Sora
The good and bad of Sora
People can't tell the difference between AI and real videos
Best videos so far from Sora
More videos from Sora
Other companies are working to make better videos. Ethics is questioned in what will happen next
OpenAI admits it doesn't know how Sora makes videos.
Videos made by outside artists using Sora
A really long article explaining how Sora and most AI creators work
How will Sora affect the rendering scene?
_S: Outside Testing
Artists are now trying Sora out
Another article on those artists
First impressions from those artists
_S: Hollywood
Sora is being shown off to Hollywood types
OpenAI is trying to convince Hollywood that Sora will help, not destroy. Just let it in, just a little.
AI: Sound
New Google AI creates music by prompt
Adobe has a new sound creation program
AI
Meta has an AI called Emu that looks impressive, but is not open to the public
A human prompt reference library for MidJourney
Llama 2 is given a workout by mlperf to see how it does.
Procyon is a new AI Benchmark test
An article about the usefulness of digital twins
There's a special prompt to get better responses from Google AI programs. Take a deep breathe and go slowly.
Some guy promoting his AI by showing famous businessmen working at McDonald's
OpenAIs hidden image creator. Note the age of the article.
MidJourney may expand into an open world creation program
Gemini will use Google Maps automatically, and even give directions
NVidia is investing in robotics AI
AI: Adobe Firefly
Firefly turns 1 year old
Firefly 2 I produced to all Adobe products
Have the official announcement. They have a structures system so you can control the image more.
An introduction to Adobe Illustrator AI. You got AI in your AI
This will be a safe AI for marketing
The ability to alter the image to get the look you want is a new type of prompt
AI: DBRX
This is an open source giant AI model. Wired si ga it's praises
It cost millions and isn't beating ChatGPT 4. Paid for by OpenAI.
AI: Spotting AI images
How to spot AI images.
An article about the X post. Anti AI leaning at points
AI: MidJourney Consistent Characters
MidJourney allows consistent characters. Give it a reference, and then choose the style.
This means being able to tell a story with the same characters in each image.
Have a tutorial on the subject
Have another article about it.
AI: Stable Diffusion 3
Here is the official announcement
AI: Creations
Books with perfect lettering
The burnt look makes the camera nearly burn the image. Cool prompts
Minimalist movie posters
Videogame visual prompts
AI: Lists
Free AI courses by NVidia
MidJourney 6 vs Stable Diffusion 3 vs DallE 3
AI: Tutorials
Prompts for lettering in MidJourney
Creating a bespoke LLM
Notion templates from ChatGPT
Using Photoshop and Krea AI for images
An introduction to LTX Studios Storyboard making AI.
Tinting images using color prompts in MidJourney
How to build a RAG powered chatbot
Someone put ChatGPT 2 into an Excel sheet to teach how it all works.
Shadows in MidJourney
AI: Videogames
The animations for this spider bot are procedurally created in Unreal Engine
Creating a procedural AI creation tool for game engines
_VG: Game Creator
A new AI can create games from scratch. The problem is it's one frame a second.
Another article that talks about it with more depth
AI: Propaganda
AI will solve scientific problems
Students aren't learning and using ChatGPT instead
AI companies would sooner destroy the world! Grr argh Twitter rant
It would be impossible to control a super intelligent AI
Chinese national arrested for stealing state secrets from Google… wait!?
How to overcome AI Anxiety in three paragraphs
Deep fakes are happening to thwart the election… in one direction only… yeah…
A fascinating article talking about AI growth and a possible fall. A detail I caught was that as a thing rises, it needs fewer and fewer people working it, so it appears like it's less work
Right before Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, a new considered dangerous AI was created.
Elon Musk is investing in AI and NVidia. Why is this in Propaganda? Because suddenly Elon is an anti Semite and needs to be punished.
Demystifying AI for artists is a needed task says former MIT professor
_P: Ethical AI
Ethical AI should be praised
Should we fear woke AI?
We should be afraid of AGI because it means more investment into right thinking companies!!!
_P: Atlantic Articles sponsored by Google
The Atlantic has a series of articles all about AI and how Google will save the world. If you remember the Donald Trump is Evil article series you get the gist. It's mostly interviews. This one is about creativity and how AI helps with that.
Google will save us by being properly restricted by Google
Capitalism will die and be reborn through AI. Google will lead the way.
_P: Psychology
Psychology says AI is too realistic
AI Generative Synesthesia
Is AI changing the way we think?
_P: Google Health and the FDA
Google Health is an AI connected to Google devices that monitors your health. It's sort of scary because it could predict someone's health issues, and be abused by the company.
Any medical tech that could improve lives has to get FDA approval. So AI is screwed up til it's powerful enough.
_P: School
A teacher talks about using ChatGPT in his classroom.
An AI put an ad for this article into my Facebook feed. I think I archived it a year ago. Schools are responding to all the ways AI is making them useless.
_P: Gemini 2 Racist pictures
Google Gemini does not show the native people of a land, but only for Europeans.
The program was taken down to get fixed.
Then it was discovered the AI couldn't tell the difference between Hitler and Elon Musk in who was worse. Nate Silver tried to save his reputation by complaining about it
AI has gotten into 3D in a big way. It has been coming to this point for a year now, and several cool things have been made. Stuff like Gaussian Blurs, Splats, and NeRF has been a major talking point, but actually generative 3D has been difficult.
AI 3D
Vast Gaussian for large model creation
3D point cloud systems and Blender.
A quick intro to NeRF studio
Kiri engine turns Gaussian Splats into PLY models
RadSplat is an updated efficiency system using Gaussian Splatting.
But being able to prompt has been a lot slower going. I have tried to get an image Into 3D and then place it into Unreal Engine, but it is generally a bad creation.
However, now the ability to control and edit the 3D creations has been introduced
3D: Prompted Creation
CSM AI lets you create and edit 3D creations using AI. Then you can animate and even render them using the same website. This link is the best I could find on the subject. The announcement is huge, but getting to it is hard.
Stability AI has a new image to 3D system that can be run on your computer. Not mine, it's a potato, but yours would be great.
A long list of 3D AI projects
3D AI has gotten a lot more control for it, including changing the textures.
Latte3D makes a character in seconds
There is also a game creator that makes each frame based on AI not actual programming.
_VG: Game Creator
A new AI can create games from scratch. The problem is it's one frame a second.
Another article that talks about it with more depth
The full link list will be published, but this is to show cool ideas I've noticed while making the list. Feel free to find other info and make your own post or copy it to the AI forum.
I'm trying something new with my lists. This one is entirely about AI and how it is viewed.
First off, Adobe is celebrating their own AI creation.
AI: Adobe Firefly
Firefly turns 1 year old
Firefly 2 I produced to all Adobe products
Have the official announcement. They have a structures system so you can control the image more.
An introduction to Adobe Illustrator AI. You got AI in your AI
This will be a safe AI for marketing
The ability to alter the image to get the look you want is a new type of prompt
It's a nice enough AI, but compared to stuff like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion it's nothing. Heck, I still have a stable diffusion add on to my Photoshop so I can prompt better if I want.
But the company that works on Stable Diffusion is going through a lot of problems.
Stability Inc
MidJourney bans Stability AI workers from its servers because they were stealing stuff to improve their own AI
Stability AI has major people leaving it. The article reads like it was paid for by Open AI.
The CEO of stability is leaving. He wants the company to go into the black and hates centralized AI
More stories on the company not doing well. This is a big AI imaging group, and it looks like others are trying to destroy them.
A long article about Stability falling apart.
A major focus of Stability was to decentralize AI. If you have a powerful enough GPU, you should be able to make videos and images on your own. Even using cloud computing I have several websites that I use to do things since my computer is a potato for AI needs.
There are several pushes for the idea of a centralized AI. One place where we get our AI and it is controlled and monitored by the governments of the world.
AI Propaganda
Students aren't learning and using ChatGPT instead
AI companies would sooner destroy the world! Grr argh Twitter rant
Deep fakes are happening to thwart the election… in one direction only… yeah…
Elon Musk is investing in AI and NVidia. Why is this in Propaganda? Because suddenly Elon is an anti Semite and needs to be punished.
_P: Ethical AI
Ethical AI should be praised
Should we fear woke AI?
We should be afraid of AGI because it means more investment into right thinking companies!!!
At the same time companies like Google and OpenAi are paying for articles about how ethical their AI is. Suddenly AI is to be trusted.
_P: Atlantic Articles sponsored by Google
The Atlantic has a series of articles all about AI and how Google will save the world. If you remember the Donald Trump is Evil article series you get the gist. It's mostly interviews. This one is about creativity and how AI helps with that.
Google will save us by being properly restricted by Google
Capitalism will die and be reborn through AI. Google will lead the way.
At the same time, Google is introducing AI like Gemini and Google Health
_P: Google Health and the FDA
Google Health is an AI connected to Google devices that monitors your health. It's sort of scary because it could predict someone's health issues, and be abused by the company.
Any medical tech that could improve lives has to get FDA approval. So AI is screwed up til it's powerful enough.
_P: Gemini 2 Racist pictures
Google Gemini does not show the native people of a land, but only for Europeans.
The program was taken down to get fixed.
Then it was discovered the AI couldn't tell the difference between Hitler and Elon Musk in who was worse. Nate Silver tried to save his reputation by complaining about it
Meanwhile Open AI is showing off their video maker Sora, which is amazing to see.
Sora AI
The good and bad of Sora
People can't tell the difference between AI and real videos
Best videos so far from Sora
More videos from Sora
The company is showing of their AI to Hollywood.
_S: Hollywood
Sora is being shown off to Hollywood types
OpenAI is trying to convince Hollywood that Sora will help, not destroy. Just let it in, just a little.
Stability Diffusion is one of the first video making processes you could use on your computer. At the same time, Stability is I producing a 3D creation tool as well.
Stability AI has a new image to 3D system that can be run on your computer. Not mine, it's a potato, but yours would be great.
I will post the link list in full with a few posts, but I thought this might open up some conversations as well. It looks like AI is being pressured to become centralized and the big names want to be that centralized power. We haven't mentioned what MidJourney is doing because they don't seem to care as much. I will post something about 3D as well.
Feel free to copy it and put it into other threads for conversation, or even the AI forum I can't seem to access.
I enjoy archiving stuff from Twitter and am in a bit of a problem. My favorite way was through Nitter. It shows all the posts if it's an type post and comments from others. The only time I don't like it is when videos are involved.
Nitter is gone, and I can't seem to find an alternative. Straight from Twitter usually does a single post. Thread reader is great, but doesn't include comments.
Does anyone know a solution?
During my list making I stumbled on this article
It's about historical calorie intake and workouts. People were eating way more calories, and doing less, and still had a lower body weight. We are constantly being told to lower our calories, exercise, and fight the obesity epidemic. Nothing fits by the historical records. Every suggestion is wrong.
I knew something was weird when I was told by a lower rich class guy that the poor couldn't afford real food. He meant the super expensive but not as good food at those special grocery stores.
It appears that the way this is done is
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Choose something no one knows that well.
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Have an obvious fake news that is prompted by all media.
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Make one side look stupid and lazy.
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Promote the bad side as rebellions
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Have tons of business to deal with the non existent problem both for and against
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Change the word use if people start to catch on.
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Promote laws stopping the Lazy Stupid people from being tricked by Evil. Said laws remove rights from everyone.
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Have demonstrations and big promotions against said thing for people to make money to 'battle' the problem. This is all a scam of some kind.
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The Lazy Stupid people are told they are special and beautiful. This niche is used for money laundering. No one is told it's not an actual problem.
I've seen this in obesity, Covid, videogames, global warming, hawks in England, sparrows in China, and several others. What others can you think of? Why is obesity promoted so hard, and what is the truth?
