Time to cancel/boycott those upcoming US Olympics...
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The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot
It’s planning to launch a new API called AI.gov on July 4th.
The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot
The General Services Administration is working on a project called AI.gov, which includes a chatbot and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI.”Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
The image shows two plush toys sitting inside a vehicle, viewed from the outside through a window. The larger plush toy on the left has light blue hair with a large bow, blue eyes, and is wearing a blue dress with a red ribbon. The smaller plush toy on the right has blue hair styled in pigtails with pink accents and is wearing a blue outfit. Both toys have a soft, plush texture. The background shows a cloudy sky and some power lines, indicating the vehicle is parked outdoors. The window appears slightly foggy, adding a dreamy effect to the scene.
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In brutal fashion, Japan show Indonesia the level needed to reach FIFA World Cup
OSAKA, Japan -- Ultimately, Tuesday's game at Panasonic Stadium Suita was a dead rubber.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Alla scoperta del Fediverso
Il prossimo martedì, 10 giugno 2025, si conclude questa serie di 3 incontri che negli ultimi mesi hanno ravvivato lo sportello Linux presso la Biblioteca di Rovereto
L’appuntamento è alle ore 18.00 presso la sala multimediale e l’ingresso è libero
Parleremo di tutti quei servizi alternativi ai social media a cui siamo abituati da anni e vedremo che un alternativa etica esiste e si può usare, con un piccolo sforzo. E che spesso è migliore sotto tanti punti di vista
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Poland and South Korea to sign contract for additional K2 tanks soon
Poland and South Korea to sign contract for additional K2 tanks soon - MilitarnyiBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
EFFecting Change: Pride in Digital Freedom
This Pride season, our panel explores how emerging laws and platform policies affect the digital privacy and free expression rights of the LGBT+ community, and how this echoes the experience of marginalized people across the world.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces fired toward crowds making their way to a food distribution point run by an Israeli and U.S.-supported group in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing three people and wounding scores.
The IDF said it fired warning shots at people it referred to as suspects who it said had advanced toward its troops hundreds of meters from the aid site prior to its opening hours.
Le chiacchierate speciali di Epsilon - Privacy e data retention - con Marco Ciurcina
A cosa serve l'Europa? A chiarire che i dati delle nostre comunicazioni non possono essere conservati senza limite di tempo e scopo. Ne parliamo con l'avvocato Marco Ciurcina, esperto di privacy, data retention e nuove tecnologie.
Co-op farming simulation game Farmatic announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
Co-op farming simulation game Farmatic announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC - Gematsu
Frozen Way has announced Farmatic, a cooperative farming simulation game with automation and RPG elements. It will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series…Sal Romano (Gematsu)
Telegram Messenger’s Ties to Russia’s FSB Revealed in New Report
The Telegram messaging app may have ties to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), according to an investigation.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
"Manchmal sieht man seltsame Sachen (muss kein Ding sein!)"
Das ist am Bärengehege des örtlichen Tierparks.
Das Bild zeigt eine Szene in einem Zoo, aufgenommen am 19. März 2010 um 16:08 Uhr. Im Vordergrund steht ein großer, brauner Teddybär, der auf einem Holzgitter steht und nach unten blickt. Ein kleiner Junge in einem dunkelblauen Wintermantel mit roter Kragenstirn hält sich am Gitter fest und schaut auf den Teddybär. Neben dem Jungen steht ein Mann in einem schwarzen Mantel, der den Teddybär beobachtet. Im Hintergrund sind weitere Personen zu sehen, darunter eine Frau in einem weißen Mantel, die einen Kinderwagen mit sich führt. Die Umgebung ist von trockenem Gras und einem hölzernen Zaun umgeben, der den Bereich des Zoos markiert. Der Hintergrund zeigt eine natürliche Landschaft mit Bäumen und einem Teich.
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@arstechnica credited this image to Paramount, which doesn't answer the question I have about it: did Paramount use #AI image generation for this?
That's not an *accusation,* but it's definitely a question. Neither I nor anyone else can definitively distinguish AI generated images from human art beyond the shadow of a doubt, but this one "whiffs" of AI to me.
And it's seriously pretty gross if an entity the size of Paramount doesn't bother to employ a human artist for something like this.
Can't say for sure, but I'd say it's probably AI if I was to be forced to pick. The difference in size in Spock's hands is pretty blatant, and there doesn't seem to be any indication of caring what the characters are stepping on. I think even a mildly competent artist would have taken more care. This borders on just taking some promotional shots, cutting the background, and dropping them on a random landscape. It has "failure to understand context" written all over it.
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They got the shadow on the bodies uniformed, but the plants Spock is walking on is not lit the same. Other places to in the environment.
Then the two pair to the left and right are looking left, while the four in the middle are looking right - from camera position.
Have a feeling this one will be remembered in Trekkie folklore.
@mike it strikes me as unlikely--not impossible, but unlikely--that a human artist would be that good at capturing the gestalt of the faces so recognizably, with almost picasso-level minimalism of detail, while getting proportions of arms, hands, and legs so desperately wrong.
Tarring Rob Liefeld again, he made several of the same class of mistake throughout an entire career... But his *faces* frequently weren't really amazing either.
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