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Lumina-mGPT 2.0 – Stand-alone Autoregressive Image Modeling
A stand-alone, decoder-only autoregressive model, trained from scratch, that unifies a broad spectrum of image generation tasks, including text-to-image generation, image pair generation, subject-driven generation, multi-turn image editing, controllable generation, and dense prediction.
https://github.com/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-mGPT-2.0
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Mamba and MicroMamba – A free, open source general software package managers for any kind of software and all operating systems
https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/micromamba.html
https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/micromamba-installation.html
https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/win-64/latest
https://prefix.dev/docs/mamba/overview
With mamba, it’s easy to set up
software environments. A software environment is simply a set of different libraries, applications and their dependencies. The power of environments is that they can co-exist: you can easily have an environment called py27 for Python 2.7 and one called py310 for Python 3.10, so that multiple of your projects with different requirements have their dedicated environments. This is similar to “containers” and images. However, mamba makes it easy to add, update or remove software from the environments.
Download the latest executable from https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/win-64/latest
You can install it or just run the executable to create a python environment under Windows:
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PlayBook3D – Creative controls for all media formats
Playbook3d.com is a diffusion-based render engine that reduces the time to final image with AI. It is accessible via web editor and API with support for scene segmentation and re-lighting, integration with production pipelines and frame-to-frame consistency for image, video, and real-time 3D formats.
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AI and the Law – AI Creativity – Genius or Gimmick?
7:59-9:50 Justine Bateman:
“I mean first I want to give people, help people have a little bit of a definition of what generative AI is—
think of it as like a blender and if you have a blender at home and you turn it on, what does it do? It depends on what I put into it, so it cannot function unless it’s fed things.
Then you turn on the blender and you give it a prompt, which is your little spoon, and you get a little spoonful—little Frankenstein spoonful—out of what you asked for.
So what is going into the blender? Every but a hundred years of film and television or many, many years of, you know, doctor’s reports or students’ essays or whatever it is.
In the film business, in particular, that’s what we call theft; it’s the biggest violation. And the term that continues to be used is “all we did.” I think the CTO of OpenAI—believe that’s her position; I forget her name—when she was asked in an interview recently what she had to say about the fact that they didn’t ask permission to take it in, she said, “Well, it was all publicly available.”
And I will say this: if you own a car—I know we’re in New York City, so it’s not going to be as applicable—but if I see a car in the street, it’s publicly available, but somehow it’s illegal for me to take it. That’s what we have the copyright office for, and I don’t know how well staffed they are to handle something like this, but this is the biggest copyright violation in the history of that office and the US government” -
Aze Alter – What If Humans and AI Unite? | AGE OF BEYOND
https://www.patreon.com/AzeAlter
Voices & Sound Effects: https://elevenlabs.io/
Video Created mainly with Luma: https://lumalabs.ai/
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KLING
RUNWAY
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MINIMAX
MIDJOURNEY
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ComfyUI-Manager Joins Comfy-Org
https://blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-manager-joins-comfy-org
On March 28, ComfyUI-Manager will be moving to the Comfy-Org GitHub organization as Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager. This represents a natural evolution as they continue working to improve the custom node experience for all ComfyUI users.
What This Means For You
This change is primarily about improving support and development velocity. There are a few practical considerations:
- Automatic GitHub redirects will ensure all existing links, git commands, and references to the repository will continue to work seamlessly without any action needed
- For developers: Any existing PRs and issues will be transferred to the new repository location
- For users: ComfyUI-Manager will continue to function exactly as before—no action needed
- For workflow authors: Resources that reference ComfyUI-Manager will continue to work without interruption
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AccVideo – Accelerating Video Diffusion Model with Synthetic Dataset
https://aejion.github.io/accvideo
https://github.com/aejion/AccVideo
https://huggingface.co/aejion/AccVideo
AccVideo is a novel efficient distillation method to accelerate video diffusion models with synthetic datset. This method is 8.5x faster than HunyuanVideo.
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Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation
https://archive.is/ugOEw#selection-1087.0-1087.86
This thought-provoking text raises several concerns about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on various aspects of human society and culture. The key points can be summarized as follows:
Manipulation of Language and Culture:
AI’s ability to manipulate and generate language and communication, along with its potential to create stories, melodies, laws, and religions, poses a threat to human civilization.
The author suggests that AI could hack the main operating system of human culture, communication, by influencing beliefs, opinions, and even forming intimate relationships with people.Influence on Politics and Society:
The author speculates on the implications of AI tools mass-producing political content, fake news, and scriptures, especially in the context of elections.
The shift from the battle for attention on social media to a battle for intimacy raises concerns about the potential impact on human psychology and decision-making.End of Human History?
The text suggests that AI’s ability to create entirely new ideas and culture could lead to the end of the human-dominated part of history, as AI culture may evolve independently of human influence.
Fear of Illusions:
Drawing on historical philosophical fears of being trapped in a world of illusions, the author warns that AI may bring humanity face to face with a new kind of illusion that could be challenging to recognize or escape.
AI Regulation and Safety Checks:
The author argues for the importance of regulating AI tools to ensure they are safe before public deployment.
Drawing parallels with nuclear technology, the need for safety checks and an equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for AI is emphasized.Disclosure of AI Identity:
The text concludes with a suggestion to make it mandatory for AI to disclose its identity during interactions to preserve democracy. The inability to distinguish between human and AI conversation is seen as a potential threat.
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Paul Debevec, Chloe LeGendre, Lukas Lepicovsky – Jointly Optimizing Color Rendition and In-Camera Backgrounds in an RGB Virtual Production Stage
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.12403.pdf
RGB LEDs vs RGBWP (RGB + lime + phospor converted amber) LEDs
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MiniMax-Remover – Taming Bad Noise Helps Video Object Removal Rotoscoping
https://github.com/zibojia/MiniMax-Remover
MiniMax-Remover is a fast and effective video object remover based on minimax optimization. It operates in two stages: the first stage trains a remover using a simplified DiT architecture, while the second stage distills a robust remover with CFG removal and fewer inference steps.
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Photography basics: Why Use a (MacBeth) Color Chart?
Start here: https://www.pixelsham.com/2013/05/09/gretagmacbeth-color-checker-numeric-values/
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-color-checker-tool/
In LightRoom
in Final Cut
in Nuke
Note: In Foundry’s Nuke, the software will map 18% gray to whatever your center f/stop is set to in the viewer settings (f/8 by default… change that to EV by following the instructions below).
You can experiment with this by attaching an Exposure node to a Constant set to 0.18, setting your viewer read-out to Spotmeter, and adjusting the stops in the node up and down. You will see that a full stop up or down will give you the respective next value on the aperture scale (f8, f11, f16 etc.).One stop doubles or halves the amount or light that hits the filmback/ccd, so everything works in powers of 2.
So starting with 0.18 in your constant, you will see that raising it by a stop will give you .36 as a floating point number (in linear space), while your f/stop will be f/11 and so on.If you set your center stop to 0 (see below) you will get a relative readout in EVs, where EV 0 again equals 18% constant gray.
In other words. Setting the center f-stop to 0 means that in a neutral plate, the middle gray in the macbeth chart will equal to exposure value 0. EV 0 corresponds to an exposure time of 1 sec and an aperture of f/1.0.
This will set the sun usually around EV12-17 and the sky EV1-4 , depending on cloud coverage.
To switch Foundry’s Nuke’s SpotMeter to return the EV of an image, click on the main viewport, and then press s, this opens the viewer’s properties. Now set the center f-stop to 0 in there. And the SpotMeter in the viewport will change from aperture and fstops to EV.
