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Comment Rather pointless. (Score 1) 5

They are actors, not supermodels. They can always scan other willing individuals and then make a composite of the features they want to make a new "actor". The appearance of an individual is just about the least important part if they want to replace you with AI. That said, I understand it and would vote the same way.

At this point, I'm a bit confused why they don't generate a large amount of motion capture data to create segments, actions, reactions, etc. before stringing them together into what they want and then use the result to puppeteer a digital avatar. The stringing together part can be made easier by using unsophisticated motion capture by novice actors and feeding it into an AI to select a small pool of relevant motion capture data which you can select the most fitting part from using descriptive labels. I have no interest in putting actors out of work but it just feels like the people that are trying to put actors out of work are doing a shitty job of it.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter what Apple does (Score 1) 28

It's an area of law the could do with seeing clarification. If stuff like this happens you should be due a refund on your bricked hardware, lost app purchases, lost media etc. It's particularly bad with consoles and Steam, where you can lose many years, even decades of purchases due to an error on their end.

Same when the mandatory TOS changes and you can't agree to the new terms.

Comment Re:That was fast (Score 1) 135

It's a variation on the 4 stage strategy.

https://youtu.be/3hua1pkDmJc

1. Say you don't believe them.
2. Say it's technically true but nothing to worry about.
3. Admit that they caught up, but it's just a copy and they can't improve on it.
4. Tariffs to "protect" Western industry that has been left behind.

Comment Re: China is still a developing country (Score 1) 50

It actually says a lot that those are the most recent thing you have the beat them up over. Let's judge the modern US by the standards of its response to AIDS and civil rights in the 1980s and 90s.

There is plenty to criticise China over, but if you look at the COVID protests a few years ago it is pretty clear that things have changed a lot.

Comment Re:Crazy (Score 1) 23

I think it's much more likely these companies know damn well they're hiring dodgy employees and they just don't care because they are cheap.

For decades companies have used plausible deniability to hire illegal workers it just makes the news because it's North Korea. Normally though we all just look the other way and pretend like nothing happened

Comment There are too many people living check to check (Score 1, Informative) 42

For anyone to actually care about climate change. If you're an environmentalist you need to fix your local economy first before anything else.

And it doesn't do any good to explain why climate change is going to make the economy worse. Nobody wants to hear your explanation. They want to hear that somebody is going to make groceries cheaper and rent cheaper. If you're not telling them that they've already tuned you out.

Remember when you're explaining you're losing.

Comment That's not how that works (Score 1) 42

What you're going to get is unpredictable weather caused by disruptions in the water cycle.

So for example a whole bunch of trails you want to walk are going to be closed because heavy rain washes them away. On the other hand you also probably are going to have droughts. Because you're going to get big sudden rain storms that do damage to the trail you want to walk followed by little or no rain...

There is no upside to what's happening here no matter what the oil companies tell you.

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