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Zach Arnold – 2020: Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal.” Normal Wasn’t Working
https://optimizeyourself.me/dear-hollywood-normal-wasnt-working/
Hollywood’s pre-pandemic “normal” wasn’t sustainable or healthy, particularly for workers who faced long hours, poor work-life balance, and limited diversity. This article calls for the industry to use this post-pandemic period as a chance to reform and prioritize the well-being, creativity, and inclusivity of its workforce, rather than simply returning to old, harmful practices.
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AI Risk Repository – What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence?
The AI Risk Repository has three parts:
- The AI Risk Database captures 700+ risks extracted from 43 existing frameworks, with quotes and page numbers.
- The Causal Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies how, when, and why these risks occur.
- The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies these risks into seven domains (e.g., “Misinformation”) and 23 subdomains (e.g., “False or misleading information”).
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AI and the Law – Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators
The court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the AI companies. The order could implicate other firms that used Stable Diffusion, the AI model at issue in the case. The case will move forward to discovery, where the artists could uncover information related to the way in which the AI firms harvested copyrighted materials that were then used to train large language models.
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Tokyo Prime 1 Studio 2022 + XM Studios Boots | Batman, Movies, Anime & Games Statues and Collectibles
nearly 140 statues at the booth from licenses including DC Comics, Lord of the Rings, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Bloodborne, Demon Souls, God of War, Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Predator, Aliens, Transformers, Berserk, Evangelion, My Hero Academia, Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan, the DC movie universe, X-Men, Spider-man and much more
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X-Dyna – Expressive Dynamic Human Image Animation
https://x-dyna.github.io/xdyna.github.io
A novel zero-shot, diffusion-based pipeline for animating a single human image using facial expressions and body movements derived from a driving video, that generates realistic, context-aware dynamics for both the subject and the surrounding environment.
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Cinematographers Blueprint 300dpi poster
The 300dpi digital poster is now available to all PixelSham.com subscribers.
If you have already subscribed and wish a copy, please send me a note through the contact page.
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Simulon – a Hollywood production studio app in the hands of an independent creator with access to consumer hardware, LDRi to HDRi through ML
Divesh Naidoo: The video below was made with a live in-camera preview and auto-exposure matching, no camera solve, no HDRI capture and no manual compositing setup. Using the new Simulon phone app.
LDR to HDR through ML
https://simulon.typeform.com/betatest
Process example