AI and its implications

[moneyp]

the speed of AI onrushing in all aspects of life is scary.

Any thoughts?

[GTcervan]

Good luck to folks of the future generation.

[Athrunzala]

"Skynet is the virus" -Terminator



"One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness BIND them!"

[_Cathy_]

I'm back in corporate after 6 yrs. I'm surprised that the bank is heavily pushing AI. Good thing I'm at the tech side of the bank now so I'm safe.

[dr. d]

I'm back in corporate after 6 yrs. I'm surprised that the bank is heavily pushing AI. Good thing I'm at the tech side of the bank now so I'm safe.

happy return-to-the-coal-mines!

well, if it will reduce their manpower expenses...

[Motortrend]

I'm back in corporate after 6 yrs. I'm surprised that the bank is heavily pushing AI. Good thing I'm at the tech side of the bank now so I'm safe.

Welcome back! Same bank as with your former German boss?

[Motortrend]

happy return-to-the-coal-mines!

well, if it will reduce their manpower expenses...

I remember the song - "I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go!"

[bxr monkey]

I'm back in corporate after 6 yrs. I'm surprised that the bank is heavily pushing AI. Good thing I'm at the tech side of the bank now so I'm safe.

Ayos. Congratulations!

[donbuggy]

AI Opens Up a New Way to Restore Classic Movies. Should We Take It? | The Hollywood Reporter
The tech is already being used to change everything from 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'The Magnificent Ambersons.' Not everyone thinks it's a good thing.
by David Canfield
March 27, 2026

Edward Saatchi, founder of Fable Studios, is currently spearheading an elaborate project on The Magnificent Ambersons. The only existing version of the 1942 Orson Welles family drama was famously cut down and reshot by RKO against the director’s wishes, with more than an hour of unseen footage eventually destroyed. Welles himself spoke decades later of his desire to reshoot the original ending — RKO’s version was decidedly sunnier — and revive the dismantled final act. Admirers have since brainstormed doing that on his behalf. Welles’ Ambersons cut is considered among the great lost films, though its existing form is still itself revered.

1892 Philion Road Carriage in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942):


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[Motortrend]

AI Opens Up a New Way to Restore Classic Movies. Should We Take It? | The Hollywood Reporter
The tech is already being used to change everything from 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'The Magnificent Ambersons.' Not everyone thinks it's a good thing.
by David Canfield
March 27, 2026



1892 Philion Road Carriage in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942):


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Hope this meets the same fate as colorization.

[donbuggy]

I'm not in favor of colorization of black and white movies in general, but I did like "They Shall Not Grow Old," the 2018 documentary about World War I where old footage was colorized, speed corrected and sound added.




I'd like to see the AI restored "The Magnificent Ambersons" with the original bleak ending. In 1942 the studio recut the film and gave it a happy ending.

And I'm okay with updating special effects like what they've done to "Star Trek: The Original Series."

Comparison of effect shots. Top: original, bottom: remastered

Remaster | Memory Alpha

[donbuggy]

From ‘BuddhaBot’ to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here | The Associated Press
by Krysta Fauria and Jessie Wardarski
April 12, 2026

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level.

Users of the platform can join video calls with an avatar of Jesus generated by artificial intelligence. Like other religious AI tools on the market, it offers words of prayer and encouragement in various languages. With the occasional glitch, it remembers previous conversations and speaks through not-quite-synced lips.

[Motortrend]

I'm not in favor of colorization of black and white movies in general, but I did like "They Shall Not Grow Old," the 2018 documentary about World War I where old footage was colorized, speed corrected and sound added.




I'd like to see the AI restored "The Magnificent Ambersons" with the original bleak ending. In 1942 the studio recut the film and gave it a happy ending.

And I'm okay with updating special effects like what they've done to "Star Trek: The Original Series."



Remaster | Memory Alpha

Yes, I agree. Funny that the Star Trek still images remind me of the photos taken by Aretmis II and Apollo 17.

[Yatta]

https://www.yugatech.com/news/zoom-i...-participants/

Zoom is rolling out a new feature designed to verify whether meeting participants are real people, as concerns grow over AI-generated avatars and deepfakes.

[donbuggy]

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men | Wired
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
by Ej Dickson
Apr 21, 2026

So last January, Sam created Emily Hart, a registered nurse and Jennifer Lawrence look-alike. On an Instagram account for Emily, *emily_hart.nurse, Sam posted photos of her ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting off a few rounds at the rifle range, with emoji-laden captions like “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported,” and “POV: You were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal <clown emoji>.”

Though Sam has never lived in the United States, he became an assiduous student of MAGA ideology. “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he tells me.

The grift seemed almost too obvious, but to Sam’s astonishment, he says the account “blew up.”

“Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it.” he claims. Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed to her softcore AI-generated content on the OnlyFans competitor Fanvue. And between Fanvue subscriptions and selling MAGA-themed T-shirts (one sample message reads ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”), Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month.

Female MAGA influencers tend to do well on such platforms for a few reasons. They’re a relative rarity in the MAGA movement: Unlike their Gen Z male counterparts, 18- to 29-year-old women overwhelmingly skew liberal. Young MAGA women are therefore “more attention-grabbing,” Wirtschafter says, citing the uproar over the likely AI-generated “Swifties for Trump” photo Trump posted on TruthSocial during the 2024 campaign as one example.

The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)

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[moneyp]

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[baludoy]

Grabe talaga Ang a.i. now It's making music too. Maganda Naman at catchy pero walang soul.

[dr. d]

And I'm okay with updating special effects like what they've done to "Star Trek: The Original Series."



Remaster | Memory Alpha

as an aside,
neil de grasse tyson once wrote to james cameron,
that the night sky Rose was looking at while she was in the lifeboat, was wrong.
well! when cameron made his director's cut ten years later, he corrected that mistake and used tyson's sky, to make it period-correct.

[Yatta]

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 226)

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love. Without presuming to exhaust this theme, I would like to propose five paths toward daily and public responsibility: the need to disarm words, building peace through justice, adopting the perspective of victims, cultivating a healthy realism and reviving dialogue and multilateralism.

[moneyp]

apparently, ukraine is now also using AI for its drones.... following Israel