Pete Warbis

A massive congratulations and thank you to everyone that’s been involved in The Addams Family. Both on and off-stage, everyone worked tremendously hard to make this show as amazing as it was. I am so proud of each one of you, absolutely incredible work.

@FinleyCode @odysseyml What’s in the training data? Stolen work?

The @odysseyml team is absolutely cooking!! We're beating benchmarks and bringing new multi-modal intelligence. It's happening. Want to try it out or learn more? Let's talk.

@garethbarnard @andreaberting Except that it hallucinates…

@andreaberting It's very useful for research, especially if you want to be true to a time and place. It can suggest character names, political orientations, jobs, places that existed at the time and all kinds of things that help set the scene.

One of many things I don't understand about using any AI to help write your screenplays is that it must take all the fun out of it. Why do it if you aren't the one doing the thinking? Problem-solving is a feature, not a bug.

@jeffrey_hawke Is it trained on stolen copyrighted works?

We've been scaling up our training, yielding the best performing foundational world model to date. Generality is key for robotics, games, and even consumer use in time. The GPUs have been busy, and there's more coming :)

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

@olivercameron Is the training data stolen?

AI is now learning to simulate reality! Introducing Odyssey-2 Max, our largest, most intelligent general world model. This is a big step toward models that can simulate and interact with the world in real time, and genuine sci-fi.

@yiningkarlli Amazing work! 👏

For the ASL remakes, Disney Animation resurrected the original data and pipeline version, reanimated (from near scratch in many places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did.

@leicesterliz @SouthYorksMCA @SouthYorksMayor @KanishkaNarayan Are those AI models trained on stolen data?

Barnsley: the UK’s first Tech Town. This Government is making technology work for all, to build a better future for all.

Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing. cartoonbrew.com/music-videos/d…

@Jameswise @UKSovereignAI @LSEGplc James, are you investing in companies who train models from stolen data?

The whole @UKSovereignAI team came together to close the trading day at the London Stock Exchange on Friday. If we do our job right, we hope more British AI companies will choose to start, scale & list here too. Thanks to @LSEGplc for such a warm welcome!

in a world full of fake performative AI slop girlbosses we have HER

The UK’s Sovereign AI Fund launches today. Journalists covering it - please ask whether it will invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. I asked its Chair this, and he replied without answering the question. Lots of AI companies train in this way and hope to get away with it - but any UK company doing so would be breaking UK copyright law. It seems reasonable that taxpayers' money should not be invested in these companies.

@Gimpuslegend And people are using this parrot to aim literal missiles at human beings

🎤 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is a very different realm than character animation. Our very own in-house effects artist Vincent Fortin shares some insight on what goes into creating such mesmerizing simulations! Studio: Agora Studio Source: instagram.com/reel/DWgm9RZlf…

@dailydesignpost Credit the artist

Before the result, there is the process. Design tip #858

Daniel got important clarifications from NVIDIA. TLDR: the "DLSS5 skeptical" were right about *everything*. 1⃣ It's a 2D AI Filter. Input is only color buffer & motion vectors. The model doesn't see geometry, lights, PBR properties, normals, anything🧵 youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s

@nimlot26 @__Mykhailo__ I watched the DF vid and they didn’t go into how it actually works. Outside of the ethical concerns of genAI, the examples they showed had clear facial differences in before/after with thicker lips, stronger cheek bones etc. If intentional, a lot could have been baked in before.

@__Mykhailo__ So you haven't even watched the Digital Foundry video but rage about DLSS 5. I'm done trying to have a conversation with you. Go and hate somewhere else

After this whole debate about DLSS 5 I came to the conclusion that most of the people talking about it are completely unaware of what they don't know...they're on the peak of ignorance and don't even grasp how little they understand. They just heard generative AI and like Pavlov's dog they just start drooling thinking it's the same shit as unethical slop image generators...for the love of Christ...go and educate yourself before raging on the internet for no reason. DLLS 5 is not a prompt based generator...it's not creating stuff based on someone else's images and hallucinates results. It uses the information from the raster to build up a final render frame with the same information but with better lighting and shading... I'll even give you an example on how much of an impact better shading and lighting has. This is a character I've worked on not long ago. On the left you have a raster render, with some bad shaders. On the right you have a render with raytrace on, a much better shader for both hair and skin. They don't even look like the same person...do they? This is what DLSS5 is doing....getting a result like the one on the right(tbh a lot better) at a smaller cost than actually rendering it. Still the same geo, same textures, same light sources. Some of you will go and say the one on the left is better and it's the artist's vision. It's not...it's just the artist's limitation due to shading and lighting constrains. Every single artist out there would love to get the right result in real time.

I think @maximilian_ nailed generative AI right on the head

@Actually_Tina It’s gunna suck for the economy if it doesn’t pop.

I dont care how much its gonna suck for the economy. I need that bubble to pop

@synaesthesiajp That’s a pretty big conflation between ML that’s been used in scientific research for decades, and generative Slop that’s built by stealing and harvesting the work of millions of artists. If consumers don’t want slop, they ain’t gonna buy your slop.

I get that some very vocal people don’t like AI. But guess what. Technology doesn’t care if you like it. It is a tool. AI isn’t coming. It is here. Just this morning my oncologist was telling me all the ways it is helping cancer treatment and research.

All you guys roasting DLSS 5 like it doesn’t look better/is detracting from art direction are absolutely insane. The lighting and shading improvements are bonkers. If that was shown as a next-gen hardware reveal and not “AI” you guys would be going nuts like the Watch Dogs demo.