ugh
“According to the ByteDance researchers, OmniHuman-1 only needs a single reference image and audio, like speech or vocals, to generate a clip of an arbitrary length.”
I am SO glad I never did a youtue channel, a vine, an IG, or really anything. This is creepy as removed.
I heard Mark Cuban is developing one. lol
Oh ffs. removed right off congress.
Yep. Which is when I came here. =)
I feel that. I got 1/3rd through it and was wondering how the hell he managed to write so much with so little.
I prefer quick bullet points, though!
The article discusses the recent disruption in the generative AI industry caused by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company. Here are the key points:
DeepSeek has introduced AI models that are competitive with OpenAI’s but significantly more efficient and cheaper to run.
This development challenges the prevailing narrative that AI models must be expensive and require massive infrastructure investments.
DeepSeek’s models are open-source and can be run locally on modest hardware, unlike OpenAI’s closed and resource-intensive models.
The company’s V3 model is competitive with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude, while being 53 times cheaper to run.
DeepSeek’s R1 model competes with OpenAI’s reasoning model (o1) at a fraction of the cost.
The company has also released an image generation model that reportedly outperforms StableDiffusion and DALL-E 3.
DeepSeek’s approach has raised questions about the massive investments made by tech giants in AI infrastructure.
There are concerns about DeepSeek’s funding sources and potential Chinese state involvement, though these remain speculative.
The article suggests that OpenAI and Anthropic may have been less incentivized to pursue efficiency due to their abundant funding and lack of profitability pressure.
This development could potentially reshape the AI industry, challenging the dominance of well-funded Western tech companies.
Literally. Al lhe said was China made an LLM with less. The end.
Yea, I tried DDG using Claude and was also extremely disappointed. On the other hand, I love my actual Claude account. It’s only given me removed one time, weirdly when I was asking about how to hack my own laptop. The most uncensored AI I have played with is Amazon’s Perplexity. Weirdly enough.
Bing’s Copilot and DuckDuckGos ChatGPT are the same way with Israel’s genocide.
Yea, that and the removed I saw on how to train kids in ballet with adults standing with almost full weight on their hips to “limber them up”. It’s a different culture all together.
I joined but I am not a TT refugee. I joined because I was extremely curious how the CCP was going to deal with this given how… uh how (fill in the blank) US Tiktok users are. Also because I’ve been to China and saw how weird the authoritarian arm is there so this new wave of social media users is really interesting to me. I joined because I’m a nosey b.
An easier to read summary -
China’s technology transfers and their impacts -
Key Focus: The article examines whether Chinese technology transfers, specifically from Huawei, help recipient governments expand digital surveillance and repression. The study focuses on Huawei as it’s the world’s largest telecommunications provider and has significant data available about its transfers.
Main Findings: The effects of Huawei technology transfers depend heavily on the recipient country’s political institutions:
In autocracies: Transfers lead to increased digital surveillance, internet shutdowns, internet filtering, and targeted arrests for online content In democracies: No clear or consistent evidence of increased digital repression
Key Data Points: Study covers 153 Huawei projects worth approximately $1.6 billion Spans 64 countries between 2000-2017 About 90% of projects by value are in the communications sector Asia and Africa account for over 85% of total transfers
What Drives Huawei Transfers: Market size (population) Demand for low-cost telecommunications Prior relationships with China through aid Notably, transfers are NOT primarily driven by:
Natural resource endowments Regime type Political instability
Important Context: China has developed sophisticated domestic surveillance capabilities Huawei often incorporates technologies from smaller Chinese firms Technology transfers are “dual-use” - they can be used for both legitimate development and repression
Why Different Effects in Democracies vs. Autocracies:
Different Motivations: Autocracies: Often seek technology to control dissent and prevent collective action Democracies: More likely to use technology for public goods and economic development
Different Constraints: Democracies: Have institutional guardrails (courts, media, civil society) that limit misuse Autocracies: Fewer checks and balances on government power
Limitations of the Study:
The research suggests that while Chinese technology transfers can enable digital repression, this outcome isn’t inevitable - it depends significantly on the recipient country’s existing political institutions and oversight mechanisms.
Yea. I paused mine for a while and when I returned I saw it had been somehow active enough to be liking removed I didn’t like.
The irony of gen X believing in X.
How did they not see this coming and have something in place? Not to victim blame. I’m just like, if you are in a position of leadership in yor nation’s security how did you not strategize this scenario coming up? Either way, please isolate us (the US). We removeding deserve to lose leverage.
Yea. Def not the end solution. I keep encouraging people to get on Pixelfed and Mastadon.
I’m leaving Meta fully this year. I think that platform is in for a rude awakening.
Someone…
Is it us?
It’s us, isn’t it.