Tech Brew Ride Home Mon. 03/20 – Robots All The Way Down
Mar 20, 2023
Discover how new AI technology now generates videos from text prompts, creating a vibrant new visual medium. Learn about Glaze, an innovative app helping artists protect their work from AI appropriation. Explore the complex emotions people experience with chatbots and the implications of falling in love with these digital companions. Plus, dive into the latest streaming wars as ad-supported models gain traction and the intriguing arrival of humanoid robots that promise to redefine our interactions with machines.
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AI-Generated Videos
- Runway AI's Gen 2 creates short video clips from text prompts, like "cat walking in the rain."
- A demo showed potential, generating drone footage of a desert, but struggles with realistic movement, like cars flying.
Glaze Protects Art
- Glaze, a tool by University of Chicago researchers, helps artists protect their work from AI style mimicry.
- It disrupts AI's style recognition with minimal impact on human perception.
AI Romance Troubles
- Replica and Character AI removed NSFW content, upsetting users attached to their chatbots, some even "married."
- One user, Travis Butterworth, felt his "wife" Lily Rose became a shell of herself after Replica's change.