Are any of ya’ll going to Dragoncon this year?
Yessir. Although I made the mistake of making a reservation at the new courtland grand and long story short have no idea if my reservation actually still exists or not so hey there’s that.
@dgerard@awful.systems pin pls 📌
Not a sneer, but a link for Baldur Bjarnason for the week:
Why Halide’s Process Zero is an important tool for iPhone photography enthusiasts
Recommend checking it out for his high praise of the AI-free iPhone camera app, but to make it relevant to this community, I’ll pull out the opening section:
Knowing how much work Lux Optics puts into their apps, Halide and Kino, I don’t think their recent Process Zero was implemented as a reaction to the ongoing backlash against “AI”. After all, now that people are increasingly negative about generative models, releasing a new photography mode that bypasses “AI” processing feels like a clever marketing stunt.
Personally, I suspect it was at least partially done for marketing purposes - beyond the wide open “AI-free” market niche, the ability to disable Apple’s built-in image processing gives users plenty of control over how they can develop photos.
Finally it is today on the AS. So I can post my link. The AI Guys Are Driving Themselves Mad (nymag link)
Found some tweets (randomly I wasn’t looking for them) of one of the people in the article above driving themselves mad. See the second tweet here. Oh no, the chatbot said it is the master of all!
Its posts broke containment, however, after an unsolicited reply from Sam Altman himself:
amazing tbh — Sam Altman (@sama) August 8, 2024
aren’t you supposed to be running the most valuable startup ever made? why are you cosplaying Ryan Gamestop Cohen?
