Interesting study! For me, robot eyes have always been about self preservation. Construction robots are forced to work in a hostile environment. By making them childlike, they trigger parental instincts that make them beloved and hence increase safety/adoption.
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YouTube Addiction: Digital Stupor Mirrors Alcoholism Patterns
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“I feel like my use of YouTube has basically mirrored their alcoholism at this point. If anything, I spend more time in stupor than they did with alcohol.” https://
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Conference Identity: NeurIPS EMNLP attendees lingering online
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I see people with NeurIPS and EMLNP still in their Twitter name, even a month+ after the conferences. Are you still there? Do you need help? Blink twice if yes.
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Musk Asks Twitter Users Whether He Should Step Down
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Musk Asks Twitter Users If He Should Step Down After Fury Over His Policies: Fury mounted over Mr. Musk’s moves to prevent Twitter users from sharing links to other social media platforms. The billionaire also asked whether… https://
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Integrity and Authenticity in the Age of AI Culture
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I can see a hybrid scenario that is workable. Being shameless about your integrity and cringe to the people who are cringey is an option.
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Critique of Stable Diffusion Community’s Shift Toward Complex Objectifying Prompts
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Sorry… I meant to poke at the SD community with this example that was trending, as a sort of ‘backward progress’ of the state of text-to-image community. We went from “elegant simplicity of creative concept art” (left) → “needlessly complex prompts objectifying women” (right).
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AI-Generated Couture Gown Inspired by Psychedelic Aesthetics
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A couture gown inspired by psychedelics. #midjourney
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Peterson warns AI threatens shared reality and social cohesion
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Peterson wrote at the time: "Wake up. The sanctity of your voice, and your image, is at serious risk. It’s hard to imagine a more serious challenge to the sense of shared, reliable reality that keeps us linked together in relative peace"
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Voice Cloning Deepfake Site Shuts Down After Misuse
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A 'satirical' website called '
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NotJordanPeterson.com' synthesised his voice from text, and was immediately used to clone him speaking feminist texts and vulgarities. https://
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AI-Generated Fashion: Semiconductor Wafer Couture Gown Design
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A couture gown inspired by semiconductor wafers. #midjourney