_cryptagion [he/him]

of course it is. apple has been doing it from the very beginning. now android gets the same walled garden.

then you’re the real deal, kudos to you and keep doing what you’re doing.

unless you’re buying music on CDs directly from the artists, you aren’t purchasing music, you’re leasing access to it from corporations like Spotify or Apple. even music you “buy”, you don’t actually own, per their terms of service, as they did not sell the music to you, they sold access to it, and they retain the right to restrict or remove your access to it at any time.

terms you agreed to, of course.

there’s no music stores on the high seas, matey.

I like that. That’s a good strawman. You compared a Kick stream focused on and containing only torture that literally killed a person to an artistic form of expression, a movie that was screened at Cannes and won many awards and is ranked second on the list of the Sundance Film Festival’s Top 10 films of All Time.

Obviously, I don’t think you’re a big enough idiot to have meant that seriously, it was clearly satirical.

Uh, what’s does that matter? Is it ok to stream shit like that if it’s simulated?

shit you’re right, I read the first part of the title and then my brain clocked out.

Sure, there are a ton of things the blockchain would be great for. Also, it just so happens that nobody uses them for that because the people developing the tech only dream about using it to join the bitcoin billionaires club.

the fucking balls on this guy. really showing up american EOD.

there’s always the one dude who tries to stop it with his hand.

glad to see russia’s military is still the world’s best. I see why they called NK to help.

oh no!

anyway.

the title should be edited to say NSFL.

I love to see it

I wouldn’t say people are incapable of noticing the difference. most people just don’t care as much as a very vocal minority of the population seems to. especially people watching shorts. nobody watching shorts is looking for quality, they’re looking for short videos that don’t outlast their attention span. it doesn’t matter whether or not something is AI, all that matters is it engages them for ten seconds or so till they scroll to the next short, and keeps the dopamine flowing.

there might be a few youtubers or purists who would pay to opt out of something like that, but the average uploader isn’t gonna give two shits about enhancements youtube makes. especially when it took this long for a few people to even notice.

a typical CPU in a phone would do just fine. AI effects in photo and video started coming out in phones before new phones started having dedicated hardware to accelerate it. phones have been doing stuff as intensive as that for years. for example, iPhones have been able to make complex and precise full scale textured replicas of real world environments that you can then import into Blender using their lidar capabilities for years. that’s quite a bit more intensive of a process than using AI to edit a video.

and as for a PC, there isn’t anything you can do to edit a video using AI that a PC CPU would not be able to handle. if a 10 year old laptop can generate video out of thin air using genAI, then applying a sharpening effect would be a piece of cake. hell, I’ve done stable diffusion on a laptop with just 4GB of VRAM. it’s quite a bit slower than with a faster PC, but certainly doable.

it wouldn’t need dedicated hardware, it would just be slower on phones without that hardware. there’s nothing that AI does that can’t be done on any phone or PC.

same thing with ray tracing, it’s technically possible on cards that aren’t a part of the RTX line, they just can’t do it as fast as an RTX card (per NVIDIA).

I don’t pay for a lot of services I couldn’t do for myself.