Is that really that different?

The article doesn’t go into any length to explain the technology. But assuringly its just an encrypted passcode created with an algorithm using measured face data.

Crafting a secure reliable personal id based on pure visual appearance has been tricky and when this came out i disliked it but it was clearly a feat.

What is the story here?

Google trusting this technology?

Them adding age verification to it?

I am just confused what makes this enough of something to write/post it.

Did i just time travel or is this the feature i have been refusing to use on my phone for almost a decade?

Yeah November 2017; 8 years ago

Is this implemented very different technologically speaking?

The question i have,

The image is digital when it is uploaded. There is a fixed assortiment of pixels only differentiated by the contrast of shades of grey.

The instructions say to colorise.

In my head this means every pixel needs to obtain a color value, while still matching contrast with pixels around it.

What ai does instead is provide an entirely newly constructed image made up from entirely new pixels which show “google deepdream” patterns.

This is from the final result where the author was “happier” with the result and asked what i assume is an llm to not invent information that isn’t there. (Zoom in)

This is not what i would call a colorisation, it’s a colorised re-creation. I imagine a real colorisation as simply a layer of color values that combine with the exact pixels of the digital scan. Disabling that layer (using photo software) should return the exact digital original and turning the final colorisation into a black and white filter should still leave it nearly identical to the original. Anything else is a recreation for fun and fantasy purposes only.

To vent, i am so glad we convinced someone in the family not to use the “ai enhanced” version for a loved ones official funeral picture.

Paid twice.

US citizens paid Nintendo for raising its prices on them… and the wild part is that it’s not even the corporations exact fault.

The system is designed to have capitalism win.

I have yet to see a billionaire that is not severely mentally ill.

Might infer that no one should be a billionaire and that capitalism was a mistake.

To play devils advocate,

When Notch was still a normal developer he was pretty progressive. I still remember the blog post where declared Minecraft has no distinct genders, all animals can breed with all of the same species, therefor everyone in Minecraft is gay. As a way to bash homophobes.

The chain of events as i witnessed it. And he also spoke of a few times is that money destroyed all his authentic friendships, his wife divorced him, everyone he met wanted him just for his money and he got completely isolated, also claimed to living for the most part on potato chips when on a podcast with moistcritical.

I also high suspicion from experience with other people he developed an alcohol problem which fuel his social media posts.

It’s no excuse but it is a recipe to make an otherwise decent person act in a monstrous way. Also a recipe to be easily influenceable by the wrong kids of al media.

Last i checked he took a long break from social media, and eventually came back as more sober person.

Can’t erase the fact he made some bad comments in the past. Many people seem to trow him on the same pile as Jk Rowling, who is actively and consistently doing harm. Such is far from fair.

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