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Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets 34 by rntn | 47 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Stream of Consciousness – watch an artificial persona making art 9 by jamez | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, moved by curiosity about how to build an autonomous agent, and to explore the boundaries of machine creativity, I built a fictional entity (dubbed Livia) powered by LLMs, Multimodal models and text-to-image models to find some answers. What happened instead is that more questions have cropped up. An important hypothesis of this project is that, by observing the train of thought and witnessing the simulated state of mind and emotional emulation surrounding it, humans could empathize with a machine. What happens when that's the case? Would people enjoy companionship from a synthetic person? Would the Art establishment ever consider a non-human author (capable of making art and interacting with other humans) an Artist? Whatever the answers, I can't shake away the feeling that human uniqueness is being eroded and that we risk facing a crisis of meaning. Perhap

Surprising public health benefit of unemployment? 30 by RickJWagner | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt 10 by gk1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal 6 by mfiguiere | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Sonauto – a more controllable AI music creator 59 by zaptrem | 29 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec ( https://ift.tt/Iwk16oP ) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal variational autoencoder bottleneck (along with some other important changes to enable insane compression ratios). This gave us a nice, normally distributed latent space on which to train a diffusion transformer (like Sora). Our diffusion model is also particularly interesting because it is the first audio diffusion model to generate coherent lyrics! W

Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation 54 by geox | 82 comments on Hacker News.

It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It 11 by pepys | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. Also an alledged prolific thief 12 by blondie9x | 0 comments on Hacker News.

It's Not What the World Needs 24 by cribbles | 15 comments on Hacker News.

The Useful Village 7 by flanged | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Identifying Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 images from VAE artifacts 18 by rcarmo | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Reaching LLaMA2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars 2 by gyre007 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy 9 by defrost | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The speed of sight: Individual variation in critical flicker fusion thresholds 8 by bookofjoe | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Wonderful $25/HR opportunity -or- Canada LMIA abuse and immigration fraud 4 by llm_nerd | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Meow.camera 3 by kalkr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Mongolian Meta 22 by deletionist | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Figurative Representations in the North European Neolithic–Are They There? 6 by Thevet | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Fuchsia 2024 Roadmap 3 by kaycebasques | 0 comments on Hacker News.