MachineMachine /stream - tagged with simulation https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The Verge]]> https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23717618/meta-metaverse-creators-horizon-worlds-events

Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a surprising shutdown of a feature that some creators hoped would someday see improvements.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:27:37 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23717618/meta-metaverse-creators-horizon-worlds-events
<![CDATA[Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English]]> https://vtubernewsdrop.com/virtual-girl-nem-metaverse-evolution-theory-intro-english/

The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium page, and aimed at generating discussion about her book in the English-speaking community.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:27:36 -0700 https://vtubernewsdrop.com/virtual-girl-nem-metaverse-evolution-theory-intro-english/
<![CDATA[$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be ‘non-playable characters’ | TikTok | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll

If you haven’t seen them yet, the videos are mesmerizing. A content creator with long, straight hair sits at her kitchen table, rapidly stringing together nonsense catchphrases, over and over with the same cheerful expression and tone. “Yes yes yes. Mmm, ice cream so good.

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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:51:24 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll
<![CDATA[The Verge]]> https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing

The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training of visual AI programs.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:19 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom]]> https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing

The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training of visual AI programs.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:19 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey]]> https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:51:38 -0700 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling
<![CDATA[AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey]]> https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 05:51:38 -0700 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling
<![CDATA[Holly Herndon on the power of machine learning and developing her “digital twin” Holly+ | The FADER]]> https://www.thefader.com/2021/07/27/holly-herndon-on-the-power-of-machine-learning-and-developing-her-digital-twin-holly

The FADER Interview is a brand new podcast series in which the world’s most exciting musicians talk with the staff of The FADER about their latest projects.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:13 -0700 https://www.thefader.com/2021/07/27/holly-herndon-on-the-power-of-machine-learning-and-developing-her-digital-twin-holly
<![CDATA[Holly Herndon on the power of machine learning and developing her “digital twin” Holly+ | The FADER]]> https://www.thefader.com/2021/07/27/holly-herndon-on-the-power-of-machine-learning-and-developing-her-digital-twin-holly

The FADER Interview is a brand new podcast series in which the world’s most exciting musicians talk with the staff of The FADER about their latest projects.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:13 -0700 https://www.thefader.com/2021/07/27/holly-herndon-on-the-power-of-machine-learning-and-developing-her-digital-twin-holly
<![CDATA[How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium]]> https://kcimc.medium.com/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated-images-4d1f6f9a2842

In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:51:51 -0700 https://kcimc.medium.com/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated-images-4d1f6f9a2842
<![CDATA[Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims]]> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors

Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:53 -0800 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors
<![CDATA[False Futurism — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/

By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before” that is focused on “tearing down the traditional barriers that have kept companies safe.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:03 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/
<![CDATA[A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace]]> https://www.interdependence.online/declaration/e-bw-AGkYsZFYqmAe2771A6hi9ZMIkWrkBNtHIF1hF4?s=09

Sign

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:21 -0800 https://www.interdependence.online/declaration/e-bw-AGkYsZFYqmAe2771A6hi9ZMIkWrkBNtHIF1hF4?s=09
<![CDATA[The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7eqbb/the-metaverse-has-always-been-a-dystopia

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon Valley.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:13 -0800 https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7eqbb/the-metaverse-has-always-been-a-dystopia
<![CDATA[arrow-left]]> https://artreview.com/the-boring-art-of-zuckerberg-metaverse/

From floating ‘3D street art’ to a talking Henri Rousseau painting, Meta’s vision of the future is drained of all imagination When I was a kid, I had a book about the future.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:41 -0800 https://artreview.com/the-boring-art-of-zuckerberg-metaverse/
<![CDATA[THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt]]> https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/

‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’Homme’, has pushed into its minutest developments.

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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:55:05 -0700 https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/
<![CDATA[The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American]]> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-racist-legacy-of-computer-generated-humans/

Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint effort between academic, commercial and federal research labs.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:19:41 -0800 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-racist-legacy-of-computer-generated-humans/
<![CDATA[Too Human — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/too-human/

As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled over. “Your pictures, dear,” she said, tucking a colorful strip of photos into my sweatshirt like a garnish.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:03 -0700 https://reallifemag.com/too-human/